GENEVA – Swiss investigators concluded Sepp Blatter knew that a World Cup broadcasting contract was breached illegally and that it would cost FIFA millions of dollars, according to a federal police file obtained by The Associated Press.
Investigation reports sent to prosecutors in December and January showed FIFA wrote off a $3.8 million debt from a Caribbean TV deal signed in 2005 by then-FIFA president Blatter and long-time vice president Jack Warner.
The deal was later alleged to have been illegally mismanaged by Blatter. “Blatter acted … more in the interests of Warner than in the interests of FIFA,” concluded one investigation file seen by the AP.