Football might unite the world, but there is little unity inside Fifa. Employees describe a toxic workplace, a culture of fear and even death threats.
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The demise of 777 Partners is now threatening to affect thousands of insurance policyholders in the USA whose money ended up funding the company’s risky bets on debt-ridden, loss-making football clubs and failing budget airlines.
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Gianni Infantino’s Instagram feed is a gallery of some of the planet’s worst rogues. His enthusiasm for Donald Trump seems to be growing as the White House smashes pillar after pillar of American democracy with volleys of unconstitutional executive orders.
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Russia was kicked out of world football after the invasion of Ukraine. Still, at the heart of Uefa’s decision making is Alexander Duykov, the chairman of Gazprom Neft, a company with a private army fighting Ukrainians.
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Fifa has been laundering its reputation through partnerships with UN bodies. WHO and UNHCR are declining to disclose the amount they are receiving from the fund meant to provide remedies to migrant workers.
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Keir Starmer watched a game at Wolverhampton alongside an ‘executive’ from an Asian gambling platform – a man that all parties have refused to identify. The silence of all involved illustrates how clubs, agencies and government bodies collude to ensure that money from illegal gambling continues to roll in.
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Sampdoria is owned by three businessmen from Singapore with deep links to illegal sports operator FUN88. Why would the trio invest tens of millions of euro in a Serie B club with no chance of being profitable any time in the near future?
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How did A-CAP lose control over Genoa and who actually owns the club now? Romanian Dan Şucu’s takeover faces a legal challenge, but is he only a front to hide the real owners?
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In the week that Fifa awarded the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia, a group of Bangladeshi workers went on strike over unpaid wages at a luxury resort in Neom. They were immediately fired.
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A gambling operator with links to a Cambodian cyber slavery operation, a drug lord named in the International Criminal Court and a sponsor of five Premier League clubs has folded its UK operation – yet continues to advertise at the stadiums.
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Neom has been described as the next chapter for humanity. But how many migrant workers will die building the new city with flying taxis and robotic butlers?
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