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Integrity

Integrity group SIGA formalises structure and launches pilot projects with EPFL joining the party

By Paul Nicholson 

February 1 – The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) has become an organisation. The eclectic grouping of consultants and lobby groups to sports organisers, formalised themselves as a Swiss association at a signing ceremony in London yesterday.  They will set up permanent offices in the country.

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Integrity

SIGA rallies support for a mass march towards sporting integrity

By Paul Nicholson

February 1 – Yesterday they held their first Sport Integrity Forum, today the Sport Integrity Global Alliance is holding its Constitutive General Assembly that will seek to formalise its structure as a multi-industry independent coalition of sports focussed bodies (including some international sports federations).

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CAS’s Skenderbeu decision opens doors to prosecutors in war on match-fixing 

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By Paul Nicholson

January 27 – The full text of the decision on the dismissal of the appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) by Albanian club Klubi Sportiv Skenderbeu to have their UEFA Champions League ban lifted has been published. It makes interesting reading and could become a landmark decision in the battle against match fixing.

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Football Asia

Jeonbuk appeals AFC Champions League 2017 ban for match-fixing at CAS

January 27 – AFC Champions League holders Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors from South Korea have filed an urgent request for provisional measures at the Court for Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a bid to overcome the ban from Champions League competition imposed on them by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for match-fixing.

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Integrity

Darmstadt and Ben-Hatira part company over links to Islamic group Ansaar International

January 26 – Bundesliga club Darmstadt have released one of its players over his links with an Islamic charity. Tunisian midfielder Anis Ben-Hatira has left by mutual consent following criticism of his ties with Ansaar International.

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Law

Manchester police to investigate anti-semitic chanting at Spurs fans as hate crime

January 26 – A video in which fans can be heard singing anti-Semitic insults before last week’s Premier League clash between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur is being investigated by police.

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Law

Belgian court awards Diarra €6m, ruling FIFA and KBVB twisted law to stop him from working

By Andrew Warshaw

January 20 – In a potential landmark ruling that could have far-reaching consequences, a Belgian court has found FIFA and the Belgian FA (KBVB) jointly guilty of obstructing former Real Madrid midfielder Lassana Diarra’s transfer to Charleroi in 2015 and has ordered them to pay him  €6 million.

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Law

UK child sex abuse cases leap to over 500 victim reports and 248 clubs ‘impacted’

January 19 – More than 1,000 cases relating to child sexual abuse within football in the United Kingdom have now been reported to police with 248 clubs caught up in the scandal according to latest figures.

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Law

Child abuse: serial offender Bennell denies latest charges to court over video link

January 17 – A former English league coach has denied eight child abuse offences in the 1980s in a case that came to light late last year, one of many that rocked the sport when several ex-players came forward to describe their suffering.

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Integrity

Shadow boxing: Trump report writer Steele also investigated FIFA corruption

By Andrew Warshaw

January 13 – Christopher Steele, the man who it is claimed wrote the explosive raw intelligence dossier on compromising material Russia allegedly collected on US President-elect Donald Trump, worked with the FBI in investigating FIFA as well as England’s 2018 World Cup bid team, according to unconfirmed reports.

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FIFA

Watch out, there’s a thief about. Six €93K timepieces go missing at FIFA

January 12 – Different regime, new ‘Watchgate’ probe. FIFA has filed a report with police in Switzerland after six Hublot watches embarrassingly went missing before Monday’s Best Awards gala in Zurich.

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Europe

Panathinaikos president Alafouzos scores hat-trick of jail convictions

Yiannis Alafouzos

By Lefteris Charalampopoulos

January 9 – On 28 December 2016 Giannis Alafouzos, president of Panathinaikos and owner of SKAI TV Station was found guilty by a Greek court, of instigating the journalist Kyriakos Thomaidis to violate Greek legislation regarding the protection of sensitive personal data.

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FIFA

Swiss court rules for FIFA over Qatar dock worker’s labour case

FIFA shadows

By Andrew Warshaw

January 9 – A Swiss court has rejected a claim by three trade unions from Bangladesh and the Netherlands that FIFA failed to exert its influence to ensure fair treatment for migrant workers after handing Qatar the 2022 World Cup.

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FIFA

Webb woes mount as Fidelity Bank swoops to collect on Cayman property debt

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January 9 – A default notice seeking nearly $34,000 in arrears has been issued against the Cayman Islands home owned by former FIFA Vice President and CONCACAF boss Jeffrey Webb, according to the Cayman Compass newspaper.

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Integrity

FIFPro warns its players to stay clear of Serbia as FA ‘fixes’ its disputes panel

Serbian FA

By Paul Nicholson

January 4 – The world players union FIFPro has issued a stark warning to players not to sign contracts with clubs in Serbia during this month’s transfer window. The union points to worsening working conditions in the country where players are rarely paid on time and where they are generally pressured into transfers.

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