NEW YORK – Once the most important man in U.S. soccer, Charles "Chuck" Blazer turned on FIFA to become the central figure in a wide-ranging graft investigation that threatened Wednesday to bring the sport's world governing body to its knees.
Following the early-morning arrest Wednesday of several FIFA leaders, including Costa Rican Eduardo Li, in a massive corruption probe spearheaded by the United States Justice Department, Costa Rica has now opened a money laundering probe into Li's assets here, a high-ranking Costa Rican justice official told The Tico Times.
Eduardo Li, a FIFA executive committee member from Costa Rica, was among seven people arrested at the luxury Zurich hotel where they were preparing for a congress starting Thursday. All now face deportation to the United States on charges of accepting more than $100 million in bribes.
In recent years, international cartels moving cocaine, arms and laundered money have installed themselves in key transshipment locations in Latin America and the Caribbean. As their franchises expanded, they have converted several countries into global crime hubs.
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina announced Friday that his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, was resigning after one of her top aides was accused of participating in a customs bribery ring.
Ricardo Martinelli, who has been out of the country since January, is currently under investigation by the Supreme Court for alleged involvement in inflating government contracts by $45 million.
BRASILIA, Brazil — Police arrested the treasurer of Brazil's ruling Workers' Party on Wednesday, bringing the country's largest corruption scandal a step closer to President Dilma Rousseff's government.
The study supports the notion that corruption is a “self-fulfilling prophesy,” where someone’s willingness to engage in corruption depends on their perception of corruption in society.
Carmen Aristegui, one of Mexico's most influential broadcast journalists, had been publicly feuding with her employer, MVS Radio, in recent days after two of her investigative reporters were fired by the company.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, during a visit to Guatemala earlier this week, strongly hinted that keeping the U.N. International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala was a condition for U.S. support of a new regional development plan for Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
