:00:14. > :00:21.This is the story of the leader of world football, Sepp Blatter.
:00:22. > :00:23.You know better than I know. You are the President
:00:24. > :00:26.of world football. I am only a reporter.
:00:27. > :00:33.And me, Andrew Jennings, an investigative journalist.
:00:34. > :00:38.Blatter's Fifa ticks all the boxes defining
:00:39. > :00:43.an organised crime syndicate. We're both getting on a bit
:00:44. > :00:50.and we're both obsessed with Fifa. But that's where
:00:51. > :00:52.the similarities end. No, no, I need big mutton chops.
:00:53. > :00:56.It's different. I have got to be eccentric.
:00:57. > :01:01.For the past 15 years, we've been on an extraordinary journey together.
:01:02. > :01:07.President Blatter, are you a fit and proper person to
:01:08. > :01:09.control world football? I have investigated
:01:10. > :01:15.Fifa's dodgy decisions. Qatar.
:01:16. > :01:20.COMMENTATOR: That is astonishing. While Sepp tried to bury
:01:21. > :01:23.the evidence. Crisis?
:01:24. > :01:28.What is a crisis? Why are you blocking the publication
:01:29. > :01:34.of the investigation into Fifa? Now the net is closing in on Fifa.
:01:35. > :01:41.They corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their
:01:42. > :01:48.interests and to enrich themselves. We put in a call to Andrew Jennings
:01:49. > :01:51.today to get his reaction. LAUGHING.
:01:52. > :01:54.And that's all he said. I'm leaving home in Cumbria
:01:55. > :02:10.for one last investigation into Sepp Blatter's Fifa.
:02:11. > :02:20.My first stop is a place I know all too well.
:02:21. > :02:26.Zurich in Switzerland. The home
:02:27. > :02:32.of football's governing body, Fifa. It's May of this year and Fifa
:02:33. > :02:35.is electing a new president. Sepp Blatter has been in charge
:02:36. > :02:41.for 17 years. He's standing again.
:02:42. > :02:45.But I am not allowed to join the party.
:02:46. > :02:47.So I am not allowed to walk from here to here?
:02:48. > :02:53.I have been banned by Fifa for 12 years.
:02:54. > :02:58.Have you seen this? It says Wilkommen Welcome.
:02:59. > :03:00.It's not much of a welcome is it? Some people do want to hear what I
:03:01. > :03:07.have to say. We are from Swiss television.
:03:08. > :03:09.May I ask you just one question? All empires collapse eventually
:03:10. > :03:13.and this empire is collapsing in front of our eyes.
:03:14. > :03:17.Where are you going to be? You've got accreditation
:03:18. > :03:23.to be inside? I have, I'm still in.
:03:24. > :03:31.Two days earlier, the world watched as the FBI
:03:32. > :03:33.arrested seven Fifa officials. They have been accused
:03:34. > :03:41.of bribery and corruption on a breathtaking scale.
:03:42. > :03:52.But Sepp still thinks he's the right man to run Fifa.
:03:53. > :03:55.It's extraordinary. And it's quite clear just
:03:56. > :03:58.by the nature of the fact that how he's tried to cling on despite all
:03:59. > :04:04.this that it's all about him, it's all about me as far as Sepp
:04:05. > :04:07.Blatter's concerned, not the sport. Sepp lives a charmed Fifa life:
:04:08. > :04:23.Limos, private jets and a salary estimated
:04:24. > :04:26.at ?7 million a year. I sat next to Mr Blatter at
:04:27. > :04:29.lunch on my I think it was my first day in Zurich
:04:30. > :04:36.and he said you have to understand that I am the only man in the world
:04:37. > :04:39.who can arrive in any country with no protocol and be received
:04:40. > :04:40.by the head of state. 01:57:38
:04:41. > :04:43.Now that statement tells you a little bit about arrogance
:04:44. > :04:47.but it's actually true and that the, the idea that might have gone to
:04:48. > :04:53.his head after a couple of decades is perhaps not that surprising.
:04:54. > :04:59.The FBI may be knocking at Fifa's door, but inside
:05:00. > :05:03.the delegates still love him. Sepp Blatter has been
:05:04. > :05:08.re-elected President. I thank you.
:05:09. > :05:11.I thank you that you accepted me. That
:05:12. > :05:18.for the next four years I will be in command of this boat called Fifa.
:05:19. > :05:23.The people who have voted for him run football associations
:05:24. > :05:25.around the world. You're confident in Sepp Blatter's
:05:26. > :05:27.leadership of football? Yes.
:05:28. > :05:32.Even though the FBI call them racketeers?
:05:33. > :05:34.You voted for Sepp Blatter? Yes.
:05:35. > :05:37.Certainly. Was that a good idea?
:05:38. > :05:40.Yes. You said there is corruption.
:05:41. > :05:45.I didn't say that. Well the FBI do.
:05:46. > :05:51.Those who know Fifa, say there's an obvious reason why
:05:52. > :05:54.delegates keep voting for him. They have no reason to complain.
:05:55. > :05:55.They get money. They get jobs.
:05:56. > :05:59.They get travels. They get dinners.
:06:00. > :06:01.Fifa was treating them very well, especially Sepp Blatter was
:06:02. > :06:07.treating them very well. The structure allows you to make
:06:08. > :06:09.deals and take care of your cronies and trade in favours and it's
:06:10. > :06:18.a really good these these congress meetings they
:06:19. > :06:20.are lavish events and you travel there first class and it is its is
:06:21. > :06:35.a nice club to be a part of and with Sepp Blatter at the top
:06:36. > :06:38.you know that the fun continues. Sepp calls Fifa the family
:06:39. > :06:49.of football. I use a different name.
:06:50. > :06:54.The Mafia. Sepp is the Godfather. And silence is his code.
:06:55. > :07:00.Let me just ask you, do you know which football officials took bribes
:07:01. > :07:04.from the ISL marketing company? Sorry I don't speak about that.
:07:05. > :07:09.Sepp Blatter's lieutenants have run football around the world.
:07:10. > :07:14.Among them Jack Warner in the Caribbean.
:07:15. > :07:16.Mr Warner, good morning welcome to Zurich.
:07:17. > :07:19.He's been looting football for decades.
:07:20. > :07:25.If I could have spit on you I would have spat on you.
:07:26. > :07:31.But I would not dignify my spit. Why would you spit on me?
:07:32. > :07:32.Because you are garbage. I am garbage.
:07:33. > :07:35.Then there's Nicolas Leoz from Paraguay.
:07:36. > :07:37.I am garbage. Then there's
:07:38. > :07:40.Nicolas Leoz from Paraguay. He's grown rich on football bribes.
:07:41. > :07:42.Good morning Mr Leoz. Morning.
:07:43. > :07:44.Is Fifa going to investigate the bribes you took from the ISL
:07:45. > :07:54.company? I don't speak English.
:07:55. > :07:56.And there's Ricardo Teixeira in Brazil.
:07:57. > :07:58.Or Tricky Ricky, as I like to call him.
:07:59. > :08:01.Hello Mr Teixeira, can we talk to you please
:08:02. > :08:11.Another Fifa boss who exploited his position to make millions.
:08:12. > :08:15.Did you take your bribes through the Sanud company?
:08:16. > :08:17.Mr Teixeira...oh Mr Teixeira...oh
:08:18. > :08:19.dear. Football development grants,
:08:20. > :08:24.TV rights, sponsorship rights, World Cup tickets
:08:25. > :08:31.and hosting the World Cup itself. Fifa is a money making machine.
:08:32. > :08:35.And some officials have been helping themselves for years.
:08:36. > :08:38.They thought they were above international law, they could do
:08:39. > :08:41.what they wanted, they were beyond the reach of the FBI, and they
:08:42. > :08:43.have realized that they weren't. That bribery and corruption are
:08:44. > :08:46.criminal matters and that people that have done wrong will go to
:08:47. > :08:52.prison like common criminals. Which is what they are.
:08:53. > :08:58.It's nice to be in London. I like to think I played my part
:08:59. > :09:02.in helping the FBI investigation. It started with a mysterious
:09:03. > :09:08.invitation from a spook. An intermediary who used to work
:09:09. > :09:13.for MI6 called me and said some American gentlemen would like to
:09:14. > :09:15.meet me here in Bruton Street. So I turned up
:09:16. > :09:18.and here were the guys. Short hair.
:09:19. > :09:24.Government haircuts. "Hello Mr. Jennings.
:09:25. > :09:27.Special Agents, FBI. Organized crime."
:09:28. > :09:28.And suddenly I've got people who carry guns agreeing with me.
:09:29. > :09:43.I like that. It's the love hotel for spooks.
:09:44. > :09:48.You rent rooms by the hour. Nobody knows who you are.
:09:49. > :09:51.You meet your informant, which was me, the contact.
:09:52. > :10:00.And business is done. And we part.
:10:01. > :10:04.I decided I should give them a bit more help.
:10:05. > :10:14.So I gave them the documents on Chuck Blazer.
:10:15. > :10:22.Chuck Blazer ran football in America,
:10:23. > :10:29.Central America and the Caribbean. He enjoyed the good life travelling
:10:30. > :10:32.the world at football's expense. Chuck lived with his pet parrot Max
:10:33. > :10:41.in the luxury of Trump Tower here in the Big Apple.
:10:42. > :10:42.He lived like the elite of Manhattan.
:10:43. > :10:46.He would eat around this neighbourhood.
:10:47. > :10:50.He actually ate at a French restaurant on the left
:10:51. > :10:53.and he would bring his pet macaw Max on his shoulder and he would feed
:10:54. > :11:06.Max chicken legs sitting outside on his mobility scooter.
:11:07. > :11:08.He never had to spend any money. It was just expensed.
:11:09. > :11:11.And he was just a thief? Yeah apparently he was just a thief.
:11:12. > :11:17.But Chuck's world was about to come crashing down.
:11:18. > :11:19.I had given the FBI evidence that could put him in jail:
:11:20. > :11:25.Details of his offshore bank accounts.
:11:26. > :11:28.And they held millions of dollars Chuck hadn't declared to
:11:29. > :11:36.the US taxman, the IRS. He came out
:11:37. > :11:40.and there were agents here, and FBI agent and an IRS agent behind him.
:11:41. > :11:47.So he turned to go to a restaurant across the street,
:11:48. > :11:51.Uncle Jack's, and they came up behind him and they said Mr Blazer
:11:52. > :11:52.may we have a word with you please. He stopped.
:11:53. > :11:55.He went white. They escorted him to this atrium.
:11:56. > :11:58.And they told him we can take you away in handcuffs
:11:59. > :11:59.now or you can cooperate. It took him less than
:12:00. > :12:12.an hour to decide to cooperate. Facing jail for tax evasion,
:12:13. > :12:22.Chuck turned supergrass. He agreed to wear a wire to trap
:12:23. > :12:30.his Fifa colleagues. The evidence he gathered ended up
:12:31. > :12:34.in an FBI indictment. Does that warm the heart of a
:12:35. > :12:39.prosecutor trying to build a case? It certainly does,
:12:40. > :12:42.it certainly does. It's pretty compelling
:12:43. > :12:45.and significant evidence. That sort of thing has an impact
:12:46. > :12:47.on a jury. Bob Appleton knows how America's
:12:48. > :12:49.anti-racketeering laws work. They were brought
:12:50. > :12:55.in to fight the Mafia. Now they are being used on Fifa.
:12:56. > :12:58.What is alleged in the indictment is a scheme that's dated back
:12:59. > :13:07.from 24 years, which by my count includes at least 40 separate
:13:08. > :13:11.bribery or kickback schemes. So it's clearly something that's
:13:12. > :13:14.been quite pervasive in the organization and certainly
:13:15. > :13:17.some very senior members of the organization are alleged to
:13:18. > :13:28.be involved in very serious acts of bribery and racketeering.
:13:29. > :13:35.The indictment is public. But we have found out more
:13:36. > :13:40.about what the FBI is up to. We've got information from
:13:41. > :13:47.inside the FBI investigation. We know who they're investigating
:13:48. > :13:51.and what they're investigating. Six men who have sat on Fifa's
:13:52. > :13:57.executive committee have already been indicted by the Americans.
:13:58. > :14:05.Now I have the names of three more being investigated.
:14:06. > :14:10.Luis Bedoya from Colombia. Marco Polo Del Nero from Brazil.
:14:11. > :14:23.And Juan Angel Napout the boss of south American football.
:14:24. > :14:34.The FBI is also looking at one of Sepp Blatter's pet projects,
:14:35. > :14:40.football development grants. Here in the Cayman Islands, they have had
:14:41. > :14:48.almost $5 million, some of it to build two football pitches. What we
:14:49. > :14:55.are missing is somewhere for the public to sit, some shade, and we
:14:56. > :15:02.still have about ten acres of swamp. Only one of the two football pitches
:15:03. > :15:07.has been built. They gave $346,000 to build that second pitch, and as
:15:08. > :15:19.you can see, it is not there. So where did the money go? This is
:15:20. > :15:25.Jeffrey Webb. Until very recently, the boss of Cayman Islands football
:15:26. > :15:33.and a Fifa vice president. The FBI has evidence that Webb pocketed
:15:34. > :15:44.$74,000 of the cash. Some was spent on his home in America. They also
:15:45. > :15:51.traced Fifa funds to an account at the bank where Mr Webb used to work.
:15:52. > :16:02.He is alleged to have helped himself to over $300,000. Cash that should
:16:03. > :16:09.have been spent on football. It has been a disgrace in my opinion, not
:16:10. > :16:14.seeing that money put into proper action, proper projects, programmes
:16:15. > :16:21.for young people. It is disappointing, to say the least.
:16:22. > :16:23.Jeffrey Webb was hailed by Sepp Blatter as a future Fifa president.
:16:24. > :16:42.He was supposed to be a reformer. It is time for a tidy up. Huge
:16:43. > :16:47.difference of opinion between myself and my producer over the styling of
:16:48. > :16:54.my hair! We will talk quietly! I have come to Washington for a very
:16:55. > :16:59.special date. No, I need big mutton chops, I have
:17:00. > :17:01.to look eccentric! I have been invited to give evidence
:17:02. > :17:11.about Fifa to the US Senate. We have got a film to make. Try to
:17:12. > :17:37.entertain the senators for a bit. The most powerful lawmakers on the
:17:38. > :17:43.planet wants to hear my take. One has to do one's best for the Senate,
:17:44. > :17:59.new type to match my red socks, and a speech to astound and inform.
:18:00. > :18:09.Where can we all sit and make jokes? Before the serious stuff? I would
:18:10. > :18:14.love a glass of water. Absolutely. On my way in, I bumped into somebody
:18:15. > :18:23.who has already tried to clean up Fifa. Michael!
:18:24. > :18:28.Michael Hershman used to sit on one of Fifa's reform committees.
:18:29. > :18:34.Interesting times. It is, I am excited about the times. We are
:18:35. > :18:40.going to clean that rats' nest out. He tells me Swiss authorities are
:18:41. > :18:45.after President Blatter himself. Sources tell me the Swiss are going
:18:46. > :18:57.to take him down on a statute called maladministration.
:18:58. > :19:04.It is a big moment for me. I have been investigating Fifa for 15
:19:05. > :19:07.years. Blatter's Fifa takes all the boxes defining organised crime
:19:08. > :19:12.syndicate, seizing and holding power, massive stealing, running
:19:13. > :19:17.rackets, compromising and outwitting public authorities, and hiding their
:19:18. > :19:20.criminality behind the world's most popular game...
:19:21. > :19:25.The senators seemed to be on my side, they understand - Fifa is like
:19:26. > :19:34.the Mafia. Might only hesitation in using that term is that it is almost
:19:35. > :19:47.insulting to the Mafia, because the Mafia would never have been so
:19:48. > :19:52.blatant, overheard and arrogant. -- overt. They realise the beat of a
:19:53. > :19:59.game has been stolen by crooks. This hearing is adjourned. Let's go and
:20:00. > :20:04.see... I had been looking forward to the day that the Justice Department
:20:05. > :20:10.got hold of these collars. Fifa is under pressure like never before. It
:20:11. > :20:16.is so different to how the organisation sees itself.
:20:17. > :20:21.This is the official version. Everything I have done up and to
:20:22. > :20:29.this point has been for the good of football. Sepp Blatter spent Fifa
:20:30. > :20:34.cash on this Hollywood movie. United Passions was panned by the critics.
:20:35. > :20:43.The first World Cup will be held in Uruguay! It's tells how a
:20:44. > :20:53.Brazilian, Joao Havelange, took control of Fifa in 1974. Our
:20:54. > :20:58.accounts are disastrous! Havelange and a young Sepp Blatter transform
:20:59. > :21:04.Fifa. Everything you need to run a family, but you know the slightest
:21:05. > :21:07.error and you are out. Havelange and Blatter did transform world football
:21:08. > :21:18.- but not in the way the movie suggests.
:21:19. > :21:30.To understand a true story, you have to come to Rio.
:21:31. > :21:53.It begins in a resilient samba club, like this one. -- Brazilian. One of
:21:54. > :21:58.the greatest patrons ran illegal gambling rackets, Castor Andrade.
:21:59. > :22:04.TRANSLATION: He was the Mafia's boss. The Mafia that ran gambling.
:22:05. > :22:17.Any person that disturbs their business was eliminated.
:22:18. > :22:23.Andrade and his cronies have been linked to over 50 murders. He was
:22:24. > :22:30.also close friends with the then Fifa president, Joao Havelange.
:22:31. > :22:36.There is a wonderful photograph of Andrade and his daughter at a
:22:37. > :22:40.wedding, and at the top table, the banqueting table, it is straight out
:22:41. > :22:45.of the Godfather, and on the top table you have got Andrade, the
:22:46. > :22:51.murdering gangster, Ricardo Teixeira, the son-in-law of Joao
:22:52. > :22:57.Havelange, so pleased to be in the company of this powerful millionaire
:22:58. > :23:01.gangster, and then you have got Havelange. In one photograph you
:23:02. > :23:02.bring together the murdering gangster and the president of world
:23:03. > :23:18.football. Andrade lived in this suburb of
:23:19. > :23:22.Rio. Havelange puts the gangster in charge of the Brazilian national
:23:23. > :23:33.football team. When the law caught up with him, he turned to Havelange
:23:34. > :23:37.for help. TRANSLATION: In the investigation of
:23:38. > :23:40.the gambling rackets, Castor Andrade added a statement from Joao
:23:41. > :23:44.Havelange saying that Castor Andrade was a respectable person and that
:23:45. > :23:54.the criminal prosecution was unwarranted. Andrade was sent to
:23:55. > :23:58.prison. Joao Havelange took organised crime to Fifa. And he
:23:59. > :24:00.helped his son-in-law, Ricardo Teixeira, but come the boss of
:24:01. > :24:27.Brazilian football. -- become. Brazil has some of the most
:24:28. > :24:32.passionate fans in world football. And some of the most corrupt
:24:33. > :24:42.officials. This is the passion that is being exploited.
:24:43. > :24:47.TRANSLATION: They take advantage of that passion that people have for
:24:48. > :24:56.football, which is an indescribable passion, and they think they are
:24:57. > :24:59.above good and evil, above the law. Senator Gias ran an investigation
:25:00. > :25:08.into corruption in Brazilian football 15 years ago. Sepp Blatter
:25:09. > :25:17.did not like it. He said he would ban Brazil from the World Cup unless
:25:18. > :25:21.the senators backed off. TRANSLATION: Evidently, he made the
:25:22. > :25:27.threat so that people here in Brazil didn't bother to take the legal
:25:28. > :25:29.proceedings further. He was an accomplice of the corrupt people who
:25:30. > :25:46.embezzle funds from football here. The senators found endemic
:25:47. > :25:51.corruption. Ricardo Teixeira was responsible. I thought I would pay
:25:52. > :25:58.him a visit. We are from BBC Television in England, we want to
:25:59. > :26:03.see Mr Ricardo Teixeira. The FBI also wants to ask him some
:26:04. > :26:12.questions. Their evidence suggests he took a cut of a huge bribe. He
:26:13. > :26:25.did not lead as in. He doesn't want to see us? Oh dear!
:26:26. > :26:33.The indictment suggests $30 million bribe was paid to win the right to
:26:34. > :26:39.sponsor the Brazilian national team. The money came from a sportswear
:26:40. > :26:47.company. We know it is one of the world's most famous brands, Nike.
:26:48. > :26:52.The indictment doesn't use the words lubricate or Greece, but it is about
:26:53. > :26:57.an under the table payments to an intermediary of Ricardo Tisch
:26:58. > :27:03.era's. The corrupt deal gave Nike unprecedented power over Brazilian
:27:04. > :27:08.football. It was giving control of football to Nike in terms of games
:27:09. > :27:14.they played, who was in the teams, it gave them a shop inside the CBS
:27:15. > :27:18.headquarters. What annoyed Brazilians and Brazilian politicians
:27:19. > :27:26.later, we found out, it was giving away control of their national game.
:27:27. > :27:27.Nike has said, previously, that it has not been charged and will
:27:28. > :27:44.co-operate with any investigation. Part of the investigation in real
:27:45. > :27:51.has to be visiting the headquarters of the Brazilian Football
:27:52. > :27:54.Confederation, because it has been a rest home for criminals, and that
:27:55. > :27:57.they have got away with it because they have had control of this
:27:58. > :28:12.fantastic asset - Brazilian football.
:28:13. > :28:18.It is Nike, the famous Nike shot inside the Brazilian football
:28:19. > :28:25.headquarters! Perhaps I could pop in and buy a shirt. He is saying that
:28:26. > :28:36.you cannot go in. What is the problem? Why can't we filmed the?
:28:37. > :28:37.The world loves Brazilian football! Eventually, they have a change of
:28:38. > :28:52.heart. Let's follow him. They even give me a seat and an
:28:53. > :28:57.umbrella. Obrigado. Ah, this is the new world of CBF. But they won't
:28:58. > :29:02.give me an interview with the President of Brazilian football.
:29:03. > :29:06.He's the third in just four years. You had Teixeira, who was cock of
:29:07. > :29:15.the walk here for a very long time. He went. And in came Jose Maria
:29:16. > :29:19.Marin and he was cock of the walk, until, oh, dear, he's gone. He's
:29:20. > :29:24.sitting in a Swiss prison cell now, just like that. The current guy is
:29:25. > :29:34.looking very nervous. Perhaps he should be. I know the FBI is after
:29:35. > :29:39.Marco Polo Del Nero's bank accounts. Their evidence suggests he's taken
:29:40. > :29:52.multimillion dollar bungs in exchange for TV rights in Brazil.
:29:53. > :30:03.Where are we? We are in the Brazilian Congress. Will they let us
:30:04. > :30:09.in, do you think? I think they will. I have been invited to give evidence
:30:10. > :30:15.to another Senate inquiry. A lot of stairs again. This one is being run
:30:16. > :30:21.by a footballing legend. I've got my hand on the railings. One of
:30:22. > :30:38.Brazil's greatest ever strikers. Romario. I'm 72. Then time to do my
:30:39. > :30:44.bit for world football again. This commission could finally do the job
:30:45. > :30:51.that needs doing, for handing football in this country back to the
:30:52. > :30:54.fans. We are choking with corruption around the world because Herr
:30:55. > :31:12.Blatter let his gangsters get away with it.
:31:13. > :31:24.There's one story that most clearly shows why Sepp is to blame. It
:31:25. > :31:29.begins in the 1980s, back in Switzerland. And it involves the
:31:30. > :31:34.sale of s the sale of Fifa's most lucrative asset - the TV right for
:31:35. > :31:42.the World Cup. I've been to visit this building too many times over
:31:43. > :31:48.the years. This used to be the headquarters of the sports marketing
:31:49. > :31:55.company ISL. It got the valuable TV contract by paying kick-backs to
:31:56. > :32:02.Fifa executives. I got hold of a secret list of the bribes. Sports
:32:03. > :32:10.officials ports officials had been paid $100 million by ISL. Our
:32:11. > :32:16.disclosure on the BBC in 2010 of documentation showing who who got
:32:17. > :32:23.their share of the $100 million in bribes was a massive, massive
:32:24. > :32:30.breakthrough. Joao Havelange pocketed millions of dollars in
:32:31. > :32:37.bribes. His then son in law, Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira, also got
:32:38. > :32:52.a bung. So did Nicolas Leoz, but Fifa took no action. I think the ISL
:32:53. > :32:57.scandal was a lesson that corruption is endemic in Fifa. It doesn't
:32:58. > :33:01.matter what you do. At some stage it will be forgiven or forgotten, never
:33:02. > :33:08.investigated, and you will be back on gravy train. Corruption at Fifa
:33:09. > :33:13.has flourished ever since. Sepp Blatter denied knowing about the ISL
:33:14. > :33:22.bribes. But we don't think that's true. We have seen a letter obtained
:33:23. > :33:25.by the FBI. It is apparently signed by Sepp's old mentor, Joao
:33:26. > :33:30.Havelange, and he put Sepp right in the frame. He says Blatter had full
:33:31. > :33:37.knowledge of his relationship with ISL, in other words the bribes.
:33:38. > :33:43.Havelange goes on, I emphasise that Mr Joseph Blatter had full knowledge
:33:44. > :33:49.of all the activities described and was always apprised of them. We can
:33:50. > :33:54.reveal that the FBI is now investigating Sepp Blatter's role in
:33:55. > :34:00.the ISL bribes scandal. The evidence could be used to prosecute him even
:34:01. > :34:04.though it happened years ago. They are able to loop it all the way back
:34:05. > :34:07.to the beginning and charge that conduct as part of this racketeering
:34:08. > :34:11.conspiracy. If it is part of the same course of conduct, the
:34:12. > :34:27.Government is able to charge it and include it in the conspiracy. The
:34:28. > :34:34.net is closing in. The Swiss authorities are also investigating
:34:35. > :34:38.Fifa. Mr Attorney General, a pleasure to meet you. It's a great
:34:39. > :34:43.pleasure to see you. Welcome to Switzerland. Thank you, I've been
:34:44. > :34:46.here many times on the Fifa case. I want to know if he's looking at Sepp
:34:47. > :34:51.Blatter. Is he part of your investigation? I would not exclude
:34:52. > :34:55.that I would interview him if necessary for my investigation, as I
:34:56. > :35:02.would not exclude anybody else who could help me for my task. Mr Lauber
:35:03. > :35:15.tells me he is working closely with the FBI. Next day, I see just how
:35:16. > :35:22.closely. They hold a joint press conference for us hacks. Our
:35:23. > :35:28.investigation remains active and it is ongoing, and it has in fact
:35:29. > :35:35.expanded since May. The scope of our investigation is not limited and we
:35:36. > :35:40.do anticipate pursuing additional charges against individuals and
:35:41. > :35:44.entities. Swiss TV has found someone that might help. They've got new
:35:45. > :35:52.evidence pointing to the very top of Fifa. Last Friday Swiss television
:35:53. > :35:59.published a contract signed by Sepp Blatter and Jack Warner about TV
:36:00. > :36:06.right that have been sold for a price far under market value. It is
:36:07. > :36:12.another deal involving my corrupt old friend from the Caribbean. Mr
:36:13. > :36:18.Warner, hello again. Leave me alone. Can I ask you... Leave me alone...
:36:19. > :36:23.Please don't do that. Jack Warner has been involved in most of Fifa's
:36:24. > :36:33.rackets. This time lucky old Jack got the Caribbean TV rights for the
:36:34. > :36:36.2010 and 2014 World Cups. He bbean TV rights for the 2010 and 2014
:36:37. > :36:38.World Cups. He bought them for $600,000, selling ught them for
:36:39. > :36:44.$600,000, selling them on for $18 million. It is the first time Sepp's
:36:45. > :36:52.finger prints have been found on a dodgy contract. The document
:36:53. > :36:56.produced by Swiss television at the weekend is devastating for Herr
:36:57. > :36:59.Blatter. A document that Jack Warner's signature and his signature
:37:00. > :37:05.has been on the screen in the newspapers. I don't think Herr
:37:06. > :37:12.Blatter will be ever again doing a press conference before he departs
:37:13. > :37:17.from Fifa. Fifa says that TV rights weren't sold on the cheap, because
:37:18. > :37:22.it was also getting half of Jack Warner's profits. But we've seen no
:37:23. > :37:27.evidence of that. Does it say that in this contract? No, it doesn't.
:37:28. > :37:32.That's the whole point, so from that point of view, no, when you ask me
:37:33. > :37:35.do they tell the truth about the contract, no they don't. Dominik
:37:36. > :37:42.Schmidt negotiated TV deals for Fifa. He sold World Cups to Jack
:37:43. > :37:46.Warner. This contract is significantly lower than the one
:37:47. > :37:51.that we had in your contract for 2002 and 2006. This is a unique
:37:52. > :37:56.constellation, because you know that World Cup broadcast rights have
:37:57. > :38:00.actually surged over the past years. I think the Caribbean seems to be
:38:01. > :38:04.the only region in the world where the World Cup has become cheaper,
:38:05. > :38:08.which doesn't make any sense. You are saying that Jack Warner paid
:38:09. > :38:17.less for these two World Cups than he did for previous World Cups?
:38:18. > :38:23.Substantially. In investigating very new allegations that Fifa sold World
:38:24. > :38:28.Cup television rights cheap to Jack Warner... We are looking into that
:38:29. > :38:33.information very closely. These are also some of these questions which I
:38:34. > :38:44.understand which I analyse, where I try to figure out what could be
:38:45. > :38:52.criminal, what is not. Fifa is falling apart in front of my eyes.
:38:53. > :38:57.Every day brings fresh revelations. There was great silence around Fifa,
:38:58. > :39:00.because people who did business with them are frightened they might never
:39:01. > :39:05.get business again, they get shut out, they wouldn't get contracts.
:39:06. > :39:09.The fear isn't there now. Suddenly we are being offered information we
:39:10. > :39:17.would never have got on the record before. Today the allegations are
:39:18. > :39:24.about Sepp's number two, Fifa General Secretary Jerome Valcke.
:39:25. > :39:30.He's accused of corruption at a press conference called by a World
:39:31. > :39:36.Cup ticket dealer. We are going to change some people's lives today. I
:39:37. > :39:41.know one guy for sure is going to change his life, and not for the
:39:42. > :39:47.better. Benny Alon wanted to buy ticket from Fifa for the last World
:39:48. > :39:52.Cup in Brazil. He says Jerome Valcke agreed to help him get the best
:39:53. > :40:01.matches. Can you give me better tickets? And he said, if I give you
:40:02. > :40:07.better tickets, what's in it for me? Benny says Fifa's General Secretary
:40:08. > :40:11.wanted a cut of the profits. I suggested that if Jerome will let us
:40:12. > :40:17.pick the other tickets, then we can make some profit out of the money.
:40:18. > :40:22.And what was in it for him? He would get 50% of the profit. He was asking
:40:23. > :40:27.you to pay him cash, not Fifa? Well, there was an e-mail from him to me
:40:28. > :40:34.that he'll be using it as his pension fund. Jerome Valcke denies
:40:35. > :40:46.the allegation, but the same day he is suspended by Fifa.
:40:47. > :40:56.The biggest cash cow of all for Fifa officials is the World Cup itself.
:40:57. > :41:03.Would you like some? It's worth billions. Nice and fresh. And
:41:04. > :41:13.countries can only win it by persuading the men sat at Fifa's top
:41:14. > :41:22.table to vote for them. The most corrupt vote of all took place in
:41:23. > :41:29.this hall in 2010. Two World Cups were awarded on the same day. There
:41:30. > :41:34.was an understanding always that it wasn't just going to be, we've got
:41:35. > :41:43.this wonderful country that can host great sporting events. We knew that
:41:44. > :41:51.that was never going to be enough. One man did particularly well from
:41:52. > :41:58.the Australian bid for 2022. It's Jack Warner again. Why n bid for
:41:59. > :42:00.2022. It's Jack Warner again. Why did Australia send $500,000 to Jack
:42:01. > :42:04.Warner? It is a really good question. A couple of months before
:42:05. > :42:12.the vote, someone thought it was a really good idea to pay ay Trinidad
:42:13. > :42:15.and Tobago almost $500,000 US to upgrade a stadium in Port of Spain,
:42:16. > :42:20.Trinidad. What we learned afterwards, of course, is not only
:42:21. > :42:29.did Jack's family own the stadium but the money ended up in Jack's
:42:30. > :42:36.personal bank account. Everybody was expected to get behind England's bid
:42:37. > :42:42.for 2018. Gary Lineker, David Beckham and Prince William all tried
:42:43. > :42:48.their best. I love football. We English love football. But I had
:42:49. > :42:53.evidence that at least four of the men voting for corrupt. Panorama
:42:54. > :43:03.told the world three days before the vote. It didn't go down well. Is it
:43:04. > :43:10.frustrating that Panorama's doing this programme a few days before? Of
:43:11. > :43:14.course it is. The England bid team called us unpatriotic. Of course I'm
:43:15. > :43:19.disappointed with the timing, and it is certainly not going to win us any
:43:20. > :43:25.votes. And even our Gary had a little dig. Thursday afternoon, live
:43:26. > :43:32.from Zurich, BBC Sport at least is right behind the English bid. On the
:43:33. > :43:38.day, we never stood a chance. England got just two votes. 2018
:43:39. > :43:49.Fifa World Cup, ladies and gentlemen, will be organised in...
:43:50. > :43:59.Russia. But the worst was still to come. The winner to organise the
:44:00. > :44:04.2022 Fifa World Cup is... Qatar. COMMENTATOR: That is astonishing. A
:44:05. > :44:11.tiny desert kingdom will host the World Cup.
:44:12. > :44:20.The real shock was Qatar, I thought, this stinks. You felt like you
:44:21. > :44:26.needed a shower, you knew that something untoward had gone on. Even
:44:27. > :44:33.I didn't realise quite how bent it was. Half of the men who voted in
:44:34. > :44:39.2010 have now been accused of corruption. If we had known what we
:44:40. > :44:46.know now, I don't think we'd have bothered in the first place, we we
:44:47. > :44:51.would have tried to contribute towards the Panorama programme!
:44:52. > :44:58.Sepp Blatter might not have known they were all corrupt, but he had
:44:59. > :45:02.proof that one was. Six months before the vote, Blatter had been
:45:03. > :45:11.told by a Swiss court that Ricardo Teixeira had taken bribes from blood
:45:12. > :45:15.sports marketing company, ISL. Sepp covered it up. Whatever Sepp Blatter
:45:16. > :45:22.and new in the past, he had to know in early 2010, after the judgment
:45:23. > :45:28.here, that Ricardo Teixeira took bribes, he was for sale, but he let
:45:29. > :45:35.him go and a vote on what countries would get the World Cups. Again, an
:45:36. > :45:39.extraordinary decision, you have to ask, why did he protect these
:45:40. > :45:43.people? And not just protect them but allow them to continue to play
:45:44. > :45:54.an active role in these important decisions? The evidence is stacking
:45:55. > :46:01.up that Qatar bought the vote. And we now have new evidence about how
:46:02. > :46:07.much the Qataris spent. It comes from sources close to British
:46:08. > :46:14.intelligence. I was told by two sources that the sum that Qatar had
:46:15. > :46:21.spent on their bid was ?117 million, and both of these authors have the
:46:22. > :46:27.same figure. ?170 million, almost six times what England spent on
:46:28. > :46:33.trying to get 2018. So where did all the Qatari money go? I'd just take
:46:34. > :46:37.the straightforward view that it should be possible, when you look at
:46:38. > :46:42.the money that people have spent, to know exactly how it was banned and
:46:43. > :46:47.whether it was legitimate or not. -- it was spent. The problem is,
:46:48. > :46:55.goodness knows, it is not transparent enough for anybody to
:46:56. > :47:01.know. The world might be catching on, but
:47:02. > :47:04.Sepp Blatter isn't. Back in Zurich, I tried to grab a word with him as
:47:05. > :47:20.he heads for work. He did not stop. Fifa's executive committee is
:47:21. > :47:28.meeting today. The whole gang is in town. Like Luis Bedoya of Colombia.
:47:29. > :47:37.The Feds are after his bank accounts. Their evidence suggests he
:47:38. > :47:43.got a bribe for a TV rights deal. Before you go, can I ask you a
:47:44. > :47:48.question? Hello! Have you heard from the FBI yet? I gather they are very
:47:49. > :47:56.interested in you. I don't speak English. That is good English! OK,
:47:57. > :48:05.right. Thank you! He doesn't seem to have heard of the
:48:06. > :48:13.FBI. But who is this? It is Geoff Thompson! Can we talk to you?
:48:14. > :48:18.He is the former boss of England's FA and a Fifa veteran. What is going
:48:19. > :48:29.on at Fifa? What is the English FA going to do about it? You are a very
:48:30. > :48:34.senior member of Fifa. We are waiting to hear your voice on what
:48:35. > :48:40.has to be done, what changes. A lot of changes. How is it going to be
:48:41. > :48:46.done? And then he was gone. Can we talk
:48:47. > :48:53.for one minute? Then out came the man tipped to
:48:54. > :49:01.become the next president of Fifa. Go on, don't drive away! Do you miss
:49:02. > :49:10.Jerome Valcke at the meetings on the hill?
:49:11. > :49:21.Eight of your members of Fifa have gone. Are you going to reform Fifa?
:49:22. > :49:44.Yes, of course. Thank you. The chauffeur driven limos are all
:49:45. > :49:51.heading here, to Fifa House. Among them, another FBI suspect, Juan
:49:52. > :50:07.Angel Napout runs Latin American football. The FBI's evidence
:50:08. > :50:16.suggests he has also taken bungs. I am outside, as usual.
:50:17. > :50:20.# I am just a lonely boy... # Inside, the media are waiting for
:50:21. > :50:28.the press conference. It is becoming a bit tiresome. The
:50:29. > :50:32.only reporter in the world excluded from Sepp Blatter's press
:50:33. > :50:38.conferences. But today something strange is going
:50:39. > :50:43.on. I don't know exactly what happened, I have just learnt that
:50:44. > :50:48.the press conference is cancelled. Then we find out why. It is news I
:50:49. > :50:54.have waited a long time to hear. What we have just been told is that
:50:55. > :51:00.the Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into
:51:01. > :51:05.President Blatter. It is alleged that are various forms of criminal
:51:06. > :51:10.mismanagement of Fifa funds, and in particular they are specifying his
:51:11. > :51:14.contract with Jack Warner, giving away the TV rights for $80 million.
:51:15. > :51:19.So a criminal investigation has been opened. I understand now why Sepp
:51:20. > :51:24.Blatter isn't doing the press conference, what could he say?
:51:25. > :51:31.Goodbye? And if that was not enough, we then
:51:32. > :51:37.hear that Blatter's air apparent is also under suspicion. Michel Platini
:51:38. > :51:44.has been questioned over a payment of ?1.3 million authorised by Sepp
:51:45. > :51:48.Blatter. When I talked to Michel Platini, he was in a very happy
:51:49. > :51:54.mood, he stopped to talk to me, and my last question was, are you going
:51:55. > :51:58.to reform Fifa? He said, of course, so maybe he didn't know that, hiding
:51:59. > :52:06.in the bushes, the Swiss police and the Swiss prosecutor were here. His
:52:07. > :52:13.payment was for work supposedly carried out after 2002, but he
:52:14. > :52:17.wasn't paid until 2011. All very odd! The Platini allegations are
:52:18. > :52:22.incredibly serious, no-one could understand how you could receive
:52:23. > :52:27.?1.3 million of money for a contract you completed nine years previously,
:52:28. > :52:31.and a payment was made before a presidential election where Sepp
:52:32. > :52:35.Blatter was a candidate. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini denied
:52:36. > :52:43.doing anything wrong, but they both are suspended for 90 days. The
:52:44. > :52:50.presidential race is descending into farce.
:52:51. > :53:00.Days later in London, I went to see another contender, South Korean
:53:01. > :53:11.billionaire Chung Mong-joon. Fifa has become a badge of shame, I will
:53:12. > :53:14.turn it back into a badge of pride. He is already under investigation by
:53:15. > :53:24.Fifa's ethics committee, facing suspension. He says he has been
:53:25. > :53:30.framed. They are not only sabotaging my candidacy, they are sabotaging
:53:31. > :53:35.Fifa's election and Fifa itself. I also ask him about a donation he
:53:36. > :53:40.made to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Maybe he can
:53:41. > :53:47.explain why he sent it to Jack Warner's Football Confederation,
:53:48. > :53:53.Concacaf. You spent $500,000, I believe, to Haiti, to try to ease
:53:54. > :54:01.the terrible pain, but you sent the money to Jack Warner, to Concacaf.
:54:02. > :54:06.You must have known that he would steal any money inside. You can say
:54:07. > :54:10.whatever it you want about Jack Warner, but I made it very clear, I
:54:11. > :54:16.made it very clear that the money was for the victims of the Haiti
:54:17. > :54:24.refugees. I did my best. And then if the money was not utilised for the
:54:25. > :54:35.refugees, it is a big gap's problem. -- Concacaf. The following
:54:36. > :54:42.day Chung is suspended from football for six years. The remaining
:54:43. > :54:50.presidential candidates are all Fifa insiders. Are you saying Fifa cannot
:54:51. > :55:00.be reformed? It absolutely cannot reform itself, it has failed to lead
:55:01. > :55:04.to reform itself. -- it has failed utterly to reform itself. Look at
:55:05. > :55:09.the man who was holding the reins until a new president is elected,
:55:10. > :55:15.Issa Hayatou. He has got all the qualifications for the job - we have
:55:16. > :55:22.already exposed him for taking bribes. I would like to ask you
:55:23. > :55:31.about monies, the books show that you received money from ISL. Fifa
:55:32. > :55:36.deny it. The organisation has a problem which is at the heart of its
:55:37. > :55:45.culture, and none of these people can run it. The system is broken.
:55:46. > :55:54.Sepp Blatter declined to respond to our questions, as did most of his
:55:55. > :56:01.officials. Jack Warner told us he rejected all of our allegations and
:56:02. > :56:07.is fighting extradition to the US. But he has already been banned from
:56:08. > :56:17.the game for life. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini could also be banned
:56:18. > :56:24.by Christmas. Last Thursday, the FBI announced more charges. That we say
:56:25. > :56:30.that the betrayal of trust that is set for the here is truly
:56:31. > :56:38.outrageous. Jeffrey Webb and Luis Bedoya have now pleaded guilty to
:56:39. > :56:48.racketeering. The other two Fifa bosses I was tipped off about were
:56:49. > :56:52.indicted. So was Ricardo Teixeira. 39 Fifa officials and associates
:56:53. > :56:58.have now been charged with corruption. It makes me feel
:56:59. > :57:04.nauseous at the levels of corruption in a sport that has been a huge part
:57:05. > :57:09.of my life and is a huge part of many people's lives right around the
:57:10. > :57:12.world. Like the dying days of some corrupt Soviet republic, where
:57:13. > :57:18.people are desperately trying to hang onto power to protect
:57:19. > :57:26.themselves. Will it collapse? I think the Fifa republic is on the
:57:27. > :57:34.brink of collapse now. Football fans can only hope the Feds can finish
:57:35. > :57:38.the job. Could the FBI be the best thing to ever happen to football? I
:57:39. > :57:42.think that might be true, not the best thing that ever happened to
:57:43. > :57:47.Fifa, but the best thing that ever happened to football.
:57:48. > :57:55.One way or another, Sepp Blatter will finally be taking a rest from
:57:56. > :58:03.football. Either in retirement or in prison.
:58:04. > :58:13.After 15 years of chasing him, it is time for me to put my feet up too.
:58:14. > :58:20.Well, for a couple of hours, at least. I told you he was a crook!