Extent of Corruption May Shock Us When Truth Emerges

As the world faces up to the extent of corruption at the highest levels of governance, the crass arrogance of some of the officials involved is shocking. I think the scope and extent of corruption, once it really starts to be revealed, will amaze us.

Not all of these officials will be found in government per se. Others will be found in professional associations, educational institutions, the ministry, business, police forces, the military, regulatory commissions, the United Nations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the alphabet agencies, etc.

I’ve just watched a BBC hour-long special on one area which is now coming under scrutiny – FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), the world soccer organization. BBC reporter Andrew Jennings alleges that in one instance FIFA officials were shown to have received bribes from a company named ISL (International Sport and Leisure) totalling $100 million. On top of that the vice-president of FIFA was accused of selling World Cup tickets to scalpers netting him more than a $l million.

The reason I recommend this documentary is that I think it will prove to be representative of the flood of them that will come in the next year when the whole of the cabal’s corruption comes undone and is exposed to public view. This is like a preview of the entire accountability operation – its scale, extent, perpetrators, and cover-ups. What is missing is the arrest and conviction of the culprits but that also will come soon enough.

Here’s part 1 of that special. Doubleclick to go to Youtube for the remainder. A BBC article on FIFA corruption follows this commentary.

httpsv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjlZw9NGSlU

When accused of their crimes, officials behaved on camera in such a dubious manner as to seem to openly admit their guilt. The vice-president, Issa Haylou, said he could spit on the reporter but he did not want to lessen the dignity of his spit. Most of the others hurried for their cars, their faces a mask of pain and humiliation. These are the powerful among us. Watch a preview of how the mighty will fall.

Listen to the banal attempts of officials to make meaningless distinctions to cover up their crimes. Watch the courts’ and legislators’ sidestep their responsibilities to bring criminals to justice.

I continue to believe that the world’s movers and shakers were so deeply convinced that the New World Order would pull off the total domination of the world’s population that they did not consider it necessary, and perhaps still don’t, to create an alibi or a cover story of any sophistication. They conduct themselves as if they are untouchable and never had a doubt of pulling everything off. (1)

When these officials start to fall, I think the rest of us will watch what amounts to dinosaurs dropping around us. Ponderous creatures will simply topple over once the justice system is freed from corruption and the media from censorship.

It’s the number of people who bought into this corruption – either those who were doing it, and those who were afraid of speaking out against it – that seems to have kept it going for so long. Everyone involved seems utterly convinced that their schemes would be successful.

The most salient point for us here is that I’m again led to believe that, without help from off-planet people, the fate of humanity was sealed. I think that, on our own, we could not have freed ourselves from the quicksand. I’m convinced that large numbers of people on this planet would have been killed by weather warfare, starvation, chemtrails, pandemics, tainted vaccines, imprisonment in FEMA camps, nuclear warfare and other methods of depopulation that the cabal had set in place for us and the whole planet have fallen into slavery without the galactics and spiritual hierarchy.

I further believe that the cabal is so bloated and arrogant that their fate is now sealed. Once the whole thing starts unravelling, I think they will fall quickly and utterly. And I think our jaws will drop when we hear the full story of their crimes and depradations.

Footnotes

(1) An earlier article related to this subject is “The Woodenness of Authoritarianism,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/accountability/nwo-essays/the-woodenness-of-authoritarianism/

Attached is a BBC article on the vice-president’s corruption.

29 November 2010

Panorama: Three Fifa World Cup officials took bribes

Fifa executives Ricardo Teixeira (l), Issa Hayatou and Nicolas Leoz (r)

Three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s, according to the BBC’s Panorama.Nicolas Leoz, Issa Hayatou and Ricardo Teixeira took the money from a sport marketing firm awarded lucrative World Cup rights, the programme alleges.

The alleged bribes are included in a confidential document listing 175 payments totalling about $100m (£64m).

The three men did not respond to Panorama’s allegations.

Fifa, world football’s governing body, also declined interview requests to address the allegations.

Timing criticised

In its programme broadcast on Monday evening, Panorama reported on evidence of a fourth senior Fifa executive’s continued involvement in the resale of World Cup tickets to touts.

The BBC has received criticism over the timing of the programme, which comes ahead of Thursday’s vote by Fifa’s executive committee on who will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals.

England is competing with Russia, Spain/Portugal and Netherlands/Belgium to host the 2018 tournament.

The BBC has defended the timing of Panorama, saying the programme is in the public interest.

But Andy Anson, the head of England’s 2018 bid, told the BBC he was “disappointed with the timing” of the programme.

“It is certainly not going to win us any votes so we just have to see what happens tonight and move on,” he said.

He added that members of the Fifa executive committee worked closely with each other “and of course if one of them gets hurt the others feel it. That’s just life”.

In a statement following the Panorama broadcast, England 2018 said the programme was “an embarrassment” to the BBC.

“We stand by our previous position that the BBC’s Panorama did nothing more than rake over a series of historical allegations none of which are relevant to the current bidding process. It should be seen as an embarrassment to the BBC.

“The 2018 team are entirely focused on winning the bid for England.”

The alleged bribes to the three members of Fifa’s executive committee were paid by sports marketing company International Sport and Leisure (ISL) and date from 1989 to 1999, Panorama reports. The company collapsed in 2001.

Fifa granted ISL exclusive rights to market World Cup tournaments to some of the world’s biggest brands and ISL received millions more from negotiating television broadcast rights.

A former account manager at ISL, Roland Buechel, said staff had long suspected bribes were being paid for the lucrative Fifa contracts.

“It is huge money, billions, that can be earned and all the sports marketing companies they fight, they want it,” Mr Buechel said.

Some details of the alleged bribes emerged in 2008, when six ISL managers were accused of misusing company money.

Front company

One Fifa official – Nicolas Leoz, of Paraguay, the head of South America’s football confederation – was named in court papers in connection with payments totalling $130,000 (£83,000).

But Panorama has obtained a confidential ISL document which lists 175 secret payments. It shows Mr Leoz was paid a further $600,000 (£384,000 using current conversions) in three instalments of $200,000.

Mr Leoz did not respond to requests for comment on Panorama’s allegations.

The second Fifa official named by the programme, Ricardo Teixeira, is head of the Brazilian Football Confederation which is responsible for staging the 2014 World Cup.

The ISL list shows a front company in Liechtenstein called Sanud received 21 payments totalling $9.5m (£6m).

Mr Teixeira was closely linked to Sanud by an inquiry of the Brazilian senate in 2001. It found that funds from Sanud had been secretly channelled to Mr Teixeira through one of his companies.

Mr Teixeira also did not respond to Panorama’s request for comment on the allegations.

The list obtained by Panorama also includes details of 100,000 French Francs (£12,900) paid to Issa Hayatou, the Fifa vice-president representing football in African nations.

Mr Hayatou also did not respond to the allegations when contacted by Panorama.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter said in a statement that the 2008 court case had largely exonerated the former ISL officials.

He said: “It is important to stress that no Fifa officials were accused of any criminal offence in these proceedings.”

At the time when ISL are alleged to have been paying the money out, it was not a criminal offence.

The recipients of most of the money paid by ISL into accounts in Liechtenstein cannot be traced.

These latest allegations of wrongdoing by Fifa executive members come after two of the 24 committee members were banned last month from voting in Thursday’s ballot.

The bans came after the London-based Sunday Times accused Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii of being willing to sell their World Cup votes.

Call for reform Critics of Fifa say a full investigation is required.

“I can’t help feeling it would be a better role for England to actually be insisting on the reform of Fifa, making Fifa transparent, making Fifa accountable instead of kowtowing to Fifa in order to get the World Cup finals,” said David Mellor, the former chairman of the Football Task Force in Tony Blair’s government.

The fourth Fifa executive named in the Panorama programme is Trinidad and Tobago’s Jack Warner, one of the organisation’s vice-presidents.

Panorama says it has seen e-mails and an invoice which show Mr Warner was involved in the procurement of $84,000 worth of 2010 World Cup tickets.

The e-mail trail suggests the tickets were destined for the black market but the planned deal – including 38 tickets for the final in Johannesburg – collapsed because the touts were not prepared to pay the asking price.

In 2006, Panorama revealed that Mr Warner had sold tickets on the black market for that year’s World Cup tournament in Germany.

Fifa subsequently ordered Mr Warner’s family business, Simpaul Travel, to make a $1m donation to charity to “compensate for the profits it had made through resale of 2006 Fifa World Cup tickets”.

At a recent press conference, Mr Blatter was asked about the fresh allegations against Mr Warner by a Norwegian journalist who first broke the story of the e-mails.

Mr Blatter replied: “Should it be knowledgeable to us, by official means, or by official channels, then naturally we would have to look at that.”

Fifa’s media office, when asked by the Norwegian journalist what Mr Blatter meant by “official channels”, reportedly replied: “We have no idea.”

England 2018 said the programme was “an embarrassment” to the BBC.

It said in a statement: “We stand by our previous position that the BBC’s Panorama did nothing more than rake over a series of historical allegations, none of which are relevant to the current bidding process. It should be seen as an embarrassment to the BBC.

“The 2018 team are entirely focused on winning the bid for England.”

Panorama: Fifa’s Dirty Secrets was broadcast on BBC One on Monday, 29 November and is now available in the UK on the BBC iPlayer.

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