Fifa corruption: Jeffrey Webb pleads not guilty in US
19 July 2015
He was placed under house arrest on
$10m (£6.4m ) bail by a New York
Mr Webb, from the Cayman
Islands , is accused of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars
in connection with the sale of marketing rights.
He was detained in Switzerland in May, along with six football
officials, and was this week extradited to the US
He was the only one not to contest
his extradition from Switzerland
He must remain at home within a
20-mile (32km ) radius
of the court, his movements will be monitored via an electronic tag and he has
already relinquished his three passports, two of which are UK
His lawyer has declined to comment.
Appearing in court wearing a dark blue
business suit, a crisp white shirt and a silk tie, Mr Webb smiled at his wife,
Kendra, as he walked in, accompanied by US marshals.
A giant of a man often referred to as
"Mr President" in the Cayman Islands, he projected a confident air as
he stood before the judge, flanked by his defence team and the US prosecutors who have mounted the case against
him, and secured his extradition from Switzerland
Mr Webb entered a plea of not guilty
to charges of money-laundering, wire fraud and racketeering.
But most of the arraignment hearing at
the Brooklyn courthouse was taken up with the
details of his bail arrangements.
Ironically, as he was listening to the
charges he faces, there was a football match being played on the grass outside
the courthouse, our correspondent says.
Mr Webb, 50, has been provisionally
banned as Fifa vice-president. He is also the former president of the Central
and North American football federation (Concacaf).
The other six people arrested are
fighting their extradition to the US
The men were held at the request of the US Department of
Justice, which has indicted a total of 14 current and former Fifa officials and
associates on charges of"rampant,
systemic, and deep-rooted" corruption following a major inquiry by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The investigation was initially
sparked by the bidding process for the Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 World Cups,
but was widened to look back at the dealings of world football's governing body
over the past 20 years.
The Department of Justice's
indictment says that the corruption was planned in the US
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- Jeffrey Webb
WHEN- 2015/9/19
WHAT- Accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights.
WHY- Not given
WHERE- New York
HOW- Former Fifa Vice-President has pleaded not guilty in connection with a massive corruption scandal in the world football governing body.
Key words:
1. plead: 辯護
2. scandal: 醜聞
3. extradition: 引渡
4. radius: 半徑
5. monitored: 監控
6. relinquish: 放棄
7. prosecutor: 起訴人
8. fraud: 騙局
9. racketeer: 勒索
10. rampant: 橫行
資料來源:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33582473
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