Depois da separação
entre Ricardo Teixeira e Lúcia Havelange que, por pouco civilizada, quase
significou o rompimento do ex-genro com o ex- sogro, eis que agora os negócios,
além dos netos, que mantiveram as relações, podem desfazê-las de vez.
Segundo se comenta nos
círculos próximos a ambos, João Havelange está estarrecido com a diferença
entre o que ele e Teixeira amealharam nesses anos todos de promiscuidade com a
ISL e as redes de TV que compraram seus serviços.
Apesar de Havelange, 96
anos, admitir que Teixeira, 65, precisa de mais dinheiro do que ele em função
da expectativa de vida de cada um, a diferença, em francos suíços, de
praticamente 12 a 1, é uma goleada inadmissível para quem fez do genro Zé
ninguém, um dos mais poderosos cartolas de todos os tempos, frequentador de
palácios presidenciais e da alta sociedade carioca, assim como dos novos ricos
paulistanos.
E as consequências na
Justiça brasileira podem acabar por jogar um contra o outro, porque aquilo que
o “Jornal Nacional”, generosa, e equivocadamente, chamou de “comissões”, é
propina mesmo, fortunas recebidas indevida e ilegalmente segundo a Justiça
suíça.
Apesar de continuamente
bajulado por cartolas como Carlos Nuzman, presidente do COB e, pior, do Comitê
Organizador do Rio 2016, tudo indica que o fim da carreira do chefão será ainda
mais vergonhoso, assim como do esperto ex-genro, condenado a ficar em Boca
Raton.
Fonte: Soccerex,
espn.com.
A Swiss prosecutor is alleging that former FIFA president Joao
Havelange and senior executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira made a
boatload of cash by accepting bribes by the company that held the TV rights to
the 2002 and 2006 World Cup.
The Guardian's David Conn passed
along this information gathered from a court order, which the prosecutor
published in the Swiss canton of Zug, documenting a settlement from
prosecutions against the accused pair made in 2010.
Havelange and Teixeira faced embezzlement charges, but that matter
became moot when they paid a settlement.
Conn reports that the pair was found to have received the bribes from
the marketing company ISL, and adds that in 1997, Havelange gave ISL
exclusive marketing rights to FIFA. Also, that in 1998 that ISL was awarded the
exclusive TV and radio rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup.
To get these rights, ISL paid FIFA 200 million Swiss francs for the
marketing and 1.4 billion for the TV rights.
Conn goes on to state that Havelange and Teixeira were given 41
million Swiss francs over eight years as a "side payment" for
this.
That is not the whole story about the alleged bribes ISL were making
either. Conn states ISL made payments of 37 million Swiss francs via a separate
company to "individuals and decision makers of global sports."
And none of these is the most damning thing of all.
Check out this quote, posted by Conn, from the report:
The
finding that FIFA had knowledge of the bribery payments to persons within its
organs is not questioned. This is firstly because various members of the
executive committee had received money, and furthermore … a $1m Swiss francs]
payment made to João Havelange was mistakenly directly transferred to a FIFA
account.
That is the real problem and everlasting stain of these bribes. They
can't be pinned on just a couple of individuals. This was a failure of the
entire governing body. Credibility will not recover quickly from those kinds of
allegations.
Source: espn.com and Soccerex. Photo: divulgação.
Tradução: Roberto Queiroz e Roberto Queiroz Junior.
