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FIFA looking to appoint watchdog group to enforce code of ethics
FIFA & UEFA - 18 September, 2006
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FIFA is set to appoint an independent watchdog to sniff out match fixing, corruption and financial mismanagement.
A leading British lawyer has been rumoured to head the new oversight group.
A meeting of FIFA executive committee members in Zurich is expected to approve a tougher code of ethics that will be policed by an 18-man commission chaired by a high-profile figure.
The move is in response to FIFA critics, who claim the organisation is too weak to face some of the biggest issues threatening the future of the sport.
The new commission's first task will be to investigate FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who has been accused by auditors of making hundreds of thousands of pounds through the illegal sale of World Cup tickets.
A leaked report compiled by accountants Ernst and Young claimed Warner and his son Daryan made GBP 490,000 from the resale of World Cup tickets, obtained through his father's FIFA connections.
Warner was found guilty of a conflict of interest by FIFA in February for another ethics violation involving World Cup tickets.
Warner, a special adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago FA, broke the code of conduct after his family's travel company, Simpaul, secured exclusive rights to sell his country's entire World Cup ticket allocation.
He was cleared in March after he claimed he had sold his shares in Simpaul. Warner, who is hugely influential in CONCACAF, has always escaped censure over his conduct because executive committee members are elected by the annual FIFA congress.
A leading British lawyer has been rumoured to head the new oversight group.
A meeting of FIFA executive committee members in Zurich is expected to approve a tougher code of ethics that will be policed by an 18-man commission chaired by a high-profile figure.
The move is in response to FIFA critics, who claim the organisation is too weak to face some of the biggest issues threatening the future of the sport.
The new commission's first task will be to investigate FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who has been accused by auditors of making hundreds of thousands of pounds through the illegal sale of World Cup tickets.
A leaked report compiled by accountants Ernst and Young claimed Warner and his son Daryan made GBP 490,000 from the resale of World Cup tickets, obtained through his father's FIFA connections.
Warner was found guilty of a conflict of interest by FIFA in February for another ethics violation involving World Cup tickets.
Warner, a special adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago FA, broke the code of conduct after his family's travel company, Simpaul, secured exclusive rights to sell his country's entire World Cup ticket allocation.
He was cleared in March after he claimed he had sold his shares in Simpaul. Warner, who is hugely influential in CONCACAF, has always escaped censure over his conduct because executive committee members are elected by the annual FIFA congress.
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