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After Nine Years, The World Cup Ticket Inquiry Of Former FIFA Official Valcke Was Closed

Corruption Allegations Dismissed as Legal Saga Ends for Ex-FIFA Secretary-General

Investigation on FIFA official Valcke closed after 9 years
Investigation on FIFA official Valcke closed after 9 years (Image Source-official page)

The case against former FIFA official Jerome Valcke was eventually ended after nine years of investigation into World Cup tickets sold on the black market. 

The Swiss Attorney General’s Office announced on Friday that it has chosen to conclude the criminal investigation into a purported ticket transaction that was suggested for Brazil’s 2014 World Cup.

He was found guilty on some charges

A criminal case against Valcke that was connected to a large-scale Swiss probe into FIFA operations has also been closed, although one is still pending an appeal after he was convicted guilty of some crimes and found not guilty of others during two trials.

The Federal Supreme Court is currently considering proceedings against “among others, Jerome Valcke, in connection with the award of media rights,are still pending in front of the Federal Supreme Court,” according to the Federal Prosecution Office. Valcke has also appealed against the June 2022 second trial verdict on his own.

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In that case, which exposed Valcke’s use of a holiday house on an Italian island owned by Qatar, the president of Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser al-Khelaifi, was also found not guilty twice, in 2020 and 2022, of instigating the FIFA official.

Valcke was suspended from his job as FIFA secretary general

Due to claims made by businessman Benny Alon, Valcke was removed from his position as FIFA secretary general in September 2015 in relation to the tickets matter. Four months later, FIFA sacked him and suspended him from the game.

Patrick Hunziker and Elisa Bianchetti, his lawyers in Geneva, said “This acknowledgement of Mr. Jerome Valcke’s full innocence is the outcome that was always expected,”

Working with longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter from 2007 to 2015, Valcke was fired in the wake of federal investigations of international football officials by the US and Switzerland.

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Federal procedures concerning payments made to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago were later closed without any accusations being brought: 

A $10 million payment was made by the 2010 World Cup host nation, South Africa, through FIFA; and a $1 million loan that was subsequently repaid in 2010. 

Zurich prosecutors also closed a criminal case that the current FIFA management had filed about the football museum that opened in the city in 2016. FIFA has banned the 64-year-old Valcke from playing football until 2032.

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