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Secret tapes reveal Fifa covered up corruption

Insight Published: 6 June 2015

The tapes were suppressed by the sports body and its president, Sepp Blatter, for five years after they were handed to Fifa by The Sunday Times

SENSATIONAL allegations about bribes in the contest to host the 2010 World Cup, even including a claim that a rival bidder actually won the vote before it was then rigged in South Africa’s favour, are revealed today in extracts from secret tapes released by The Sunday Times.

The tapes expose the alleged World Cup bribes that are now at the heart of the US investigation into Fifa, but were suppressed by the sports body and its president, Sepp Blatter, for five years after they were handed to Fifa by The Sunday Times.

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