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DeathSandwich posted:So out of curiousity: Who's paying this bribe money to FIFA? Is it the Government themselves or some other political/business entity inside the country that's drafting up these payolas? In the South African case the $10 million was diverted at the request of the South African World Cup Organising Committee from it's budget provided by FIFA , a bunch of letters have been leaked confirming that South African Football Association requested the money be diverted ostensibly to fund a Diaspora Legacy Programme that was part of their bid - however they do go out of their to specify that the money be specifically transferred to Warner. Also, over the weekend the South African Sunday Times leaked an email between Jerome Valcke and the deputy finance minister that indicated this was arranged directly between Blatter and the then President Thabo Mbeki. The original is paywalled but the Telegraph has a brief description including the offending email: 
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Spangly A posted:Tokyo Sexwale, a man mysteriously rich from gold and diamonds after being locked up alongside Mandela in Robben Island, is the favourite. Its not really mysterious how he made his fortune, when the ANC came to power they pursued a policy of black economic empowerment (BEE) and specifically targeted the mining and extractive sector in the early days. In order to secure new prospecting or mining licences companies had to have a certain percentage of shares owned by black run investment vehicles. At the same time the big five mining companies launched an unbundling/restructuring of their assets encouraged by the government to try to break apart the massive unwieldy super corporations like Anglo American that had developed under Apartheid when foreign companies weren't too keen to set up shop in South Africa. Suddenly mining companies needed to find black entrepreneurs as partners and considering the resources available to the average black citizen the only individuals with the connections (and political capital) to raise the kind of funds needed to create the new black investment vehicles were well placed party cadres like Sexwale. Sexwale made a lot of his money as the black economic empowerment partner to the massive Rembrandt group, owned by the billionaire Rupert family. kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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