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AP Source: FIFA evidence against bin Hammam mounts
LONDON (AP) -- FIFA's investigators have gathered more evidence of bribery against suspended executive Mohamed bin Hammam during his campaign to become president of world soccer governing body, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Nine of the 24 Caribbean Football Union members who attended a meeting in Trinidad in May have admitted to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh that they were offered or accepted $40,000 payments from bin Hammam. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because it is a confidential report.
The corruption report - compiled by former FBI agents - was sent to bin Hammam last week, and FIFA has summoned the suspended head of Asian soccer to a full ethics committee hearing on July 22.
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LONDON (AP) -- FIFA's investigators have gathered more evidence of bribery against suspended executive Mohamed bin Hammam during his campaign to become president of world soccer governing body, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Nine of the 24 Caribbean Football Union members who attended a meeting in Trinidad in May have admitted to ex-FBI director Louis Freeh that they were offered or accepted $40,000 payments from bin Hammam. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because it is a confidential report.
The corruption report - compiled by former FBI agents - was sent to bin Hammam last week, and FIFA has summoned the suspended head of Asian soccer to a full ethics committee hearing on July 22.
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