Two former Fox Sports executives were charged with bribing FIFA officials in exchange for broadcasting rights
Hernan Lopez and Carlos Martinez helped bribe officials at Conmebol, FIFA’s soccer confederation in South America, according to a U.S. grand jury indictment unsealed Monday. The two men were high-ranking executives of a Fox Sports international subsidiary, where they were responsible for developing Fox’s sports broadcasting business in South America, prosecutors said.
“We are certain a jury will swiftly exonerate Carlos, as these charges are nothing more than stale fiction,” Steven McCool, a lawyer for Mr. Martinez, said in a statement. Prosecutors on Monday also charged Gerard Romy, a 65-year-old former executive of a Spanish media company, and Full Play Group SA, a sports marketing company based in Argentina, with wire fraud, money laundering and racketeering.
The moments that allegedly swung the vote, Monday’s indictment said, came in payments amounting to millions of dollars funneled through shell companies in the weeks before executives gathered in Switzerland.
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