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Sepp Blatter awards lucrative World Cup contract to nephew's company - report
28 Dec 2009 16:56:48
FIFA president Sepp Blatter is being urged to come clean about the award of a lucrative ticketing contract for next summer's World Cup finals to a company part-owned by the firm his nephew runs, according to a report from The Daily Express.
Blatter heads the 24-man executive committee which handed a 380,000-ticket hospitality contract exclusively to MATCH Hospitality in October 2007. The deal is reportedly worth £342 million should all the tickets be sold.
MATCH are partly owned by Infront Sports & Media, a Swiss-based marketing company whose president and CEO is Philippe Blatter.
"The decision to appoint MATCH Hospitality followed a public tender and was made by FIFA as a whole, including the 24 members of the executive committee," FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said, according to The Express.
Blatter heads the 24-man executive committee which handed a 380,000-ticket hospitality contract exclusively to MATCH Hospitality in October 2007. The deal is reportedly worth £342 million should all the tickets be sold.
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MATCH are partly owned by Infront Sports & Media, a Swiss-based marketing company whose president and CEO is Philippe Blatter.
"The decision to appoint MATCH Hospitality followed a public tender and was made by FIFA as a whole, including the 24 members of the executive committee," FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said, according to The Express.
"The rights were awarded to the highest and best bidder."
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