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Победа Макрона во Франции - неприятная новость для Путина по многим причинам. Одна из них: в апреле стало известно, что Франция проводит собственное расследование коррупции в ФИФА вокруг обстоятельств выбора России и Катара в качестве мест для проведения Кубков мира.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into potential corruption relating to Fifa’s vote for Russia and Qatar to host respectively the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, sources close to the investigation have confirmed. Investigators are understood to have interviewed Sepp Blatter, who was the Fifa president at the time of the controversial December 2010 vote by a majority of the executive committee.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/27/france-investiagtes-2018-2022-world-cup-votes-blatter-platini

Ранее коррупция ФИФА расследовалось в США и Швейцарии, но вопрос сомнительного голосования напрямую не затрагивался. Расследованию ФБР помог ныне знаменитый Кристофер Стил.

Emails seen by Reuters indicate that, in the summer of 2010, members of a New York-based FBI squad assigned to investigate “Eurasian Organized Crime” met Steele in London to discuss allegations of possible corruption in FIFA, the Zurich, Switzerland-based body that also organizes the World Cup tournament.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-steele-idUSKBN14W0HN

Следует ли удивляться тому, что футбольные жулики, которые оперировали в США и попали в сети ФБР, были хорошими приятелями Трампа и вели свои операции из Trump Tower в Нью-Йорке?



Футбольный деятель Чак Блейзер, которого агенты ФБР склонили к сотрудничеству со следствием и который признал себя виновным в многочисленных преступлениях (wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, income tax evasion and failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts), занимал две квартиры в Trump Tower - одну для себя, другую для своих котов.

CONCACAF’s offices took up the entire 17th floor, but Blazer often worked from two apartments where he lived on the 49th floor in $18,000-per-month digs for himself and an adjoining $6,000 retreat largely for his unruly cats, according to a source. “He lived like there was no tomorrow,” said one source. “He ate and drank whatever he pleased. He probably thought he’d be gone before anybody noticed what he had helped himself to.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/soccer-rat-ex-u-s-soccer-exec-chuck-blazer-fbi-informant-article-1.1995761

В 2005 Чак Блейзер одолжил свою квартиру Трампу (за скромную плату в $5 тысяч) для съемки рекламного ролика про Trump University.

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Once Blazer agreed to let Trump use his place, the film crew set about transforming a room in Chuck’s apartment into an ersatz library, hauling in dark wooden bookshelves, desk chairs and a huge green globe for the commercial which was supposed to look like a kind of Masterpiece Theater interview. One problem with filming that day: there were no books. Blazer wasn’t a reader. The crew scrambled to find reading material and law books materialized from somewhere.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-papenfuss/donald-trump-soccer-snitc_b_10225472.html



Начальник и подельник Блейзера Джек Уорнер, бывший вице-президент ФИФА, который ныне скрывается в родном Тринидаде от экстрадиции в США, жил на более широкую ногу.

Warner, who is currently fighting extradition to the US in relation to his operation as a former CONCACAF/FIFA executive, said Trump had been his landlord and neighbour for 20 years while he (Warner) was at CONCACAF. “The CONCACAF office I had headed was on the 17th floor of the Trump Towers from 1990 to 2010 and my own apartment was on the 52nd floor of the Trump Towers as well. In fact, my apartment was opposite his and we were accustomed to greeting each other,” Warner said. “I had rented the office space for (US)$11,000 a month and by the time we vacated in 2010, the rent was (US)$100,000 monthly. I would also often go to his casino in Atlantic City, so I’m all for him and wish him the best.”
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-11-11/rowley-ready-re-affirm-us-ties

Помимо криминального преследования, CONCACAF (конфедерация футбола Северной и Центральной Америки и стран Карибского бассейна) выставила своим бывшим руководителям Блейзеру и Уорнеру иск на $20 миллионов.

The suit accuses the pair of negotiating bribes and kickbacks in connection with lucrative broadcasting rights for tournaments including CONCACAF's Gold Cup championship. "There can be no doubt that Warner and Blazer victimized CONCACAF, stealing and defrauding it out of tens of millions of dollars in brazen acts of corruption for their own personal benefit at the expense of the entire CONCACAF region," the suit says.
http://www.espnfc.com/blog/fifa/243/post/3109120/concacaf-files-suit-against-ex-fifa-officials-jack-warner-and-charles-blazer



Футбол футболом, а для Трампа главным видом спорта остаётся гольф. Нашумело высказывание Эрика Трампа, который в 2014 признался, что финансирование для гольф-клубов Трампа поступает из России.

"So when I got in the cart with Eric," Dodson says, "as we were setting off, I said, 'Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks - because of the recession, the Great Recession - have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.' And this is what he said. He said, 'Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.' I said, 'Really?' And he said, 'Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.' Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting."
http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/05/05/james-dodson-donald-trump-golf