Under suspicion in the fallout from the global offshore accounts investigation, Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani resigned as a
FIFA ethics judge on Wednesday. Damiani was already under investigation by FIFA ethics prosecutors after being identified
on Sunday in a vast leak of data from a Panama law firm specializing in tax avoidance schemes which can be exploited
for money laundering. His exit, after helping to ban former FIFA
president Sepp Blatter from soccer last December, damages the scandal-hit world soccer body's efforts to rebuild its image and
reputation under new leadership.
Damiani's formal resignation from the FIFA
court was confirmed in a statement from the
judging chamber without giving details.
The Penarol club president's links to
disgraced former FIFA vice president Eugenio
Figueredo were the center of the case against
him. Damiani did not tell the FIFA ethics committee until March that he and his family's law firm had a "business
relationship" with Figueredo, a fellow Uruguayan who had been arrested in Zurich almost 10 months earlier.
Figueredo was indicted by American federal
prosecutors investigating corruption in world
soccer and later extradited to Uruguay. He
has pleaded guilty to fraud and money
laundering charges and acknowledged taking
bribes.
On Sunday, Damiani was named in
international media reports for his law firm's
links to Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca.
He is alleged to have helped create offshore
accounts and companies for three clients
who have been indicted in the sprawling
FIFA bribery investigation led by federal
prosecutors in Brooklyn.
As well as Figueredo, marketing executives
Hugo and Mariano Jinkis — a father and son
from Argentina — are suspected of paying
millions of dollars in bribes linked to
acquiring broadcast rights for continental
competitions, including the Copa America.
The Jinkis connection has also drawn new
FIFA President Gianni Infantino into the
reports, though he is not suspected of
wrongdoing. As UEFA legal director in 2006,
Infantino co-signed a contract selling
Champions League TV rights for Ecuador to a
subsidiary of the Jinkis-owned Full Play
company.
On Wednesday, UEFA offices in Switzerland
were raided by federal police to seize
documents relating to the rights deal.
Switzerland's attorney general is leading a
widening investigation of FIFA, and now
UEFA, business which includes suspected
undervalued sales of TV rights. Criminal
proceedings against Blatter were opened last
September.
In 2006, Blatter helped appoint Damiani as a
member of a revamped FIFA ethics
committee.
Damiani also followed his father into
football, succeeding him as president of
Uruguay's 49-time champion Penarol.
Last week, Damiani hosted Infantino at the
club and presented him with a personalized
yellow and black-striped team shirt.

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Saraki no go resign!!! shame no dey naija jor

mackhunter77:
Saraki no go resign!!! shame no dey naija jor

Naso my brother.. But let's wait and see

Sunymoore:

Naso my brother.. But let's wait and see

there's nothing to wait and see...even if all of naija protest say make him leave d office, he won't. there's hope from CCT sha