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Panama Papers: Fifa ethics lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani under internal investigation
Source: BBC
Panama Papers: Fifa ethics lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani under internal investigation
By Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent
3 April 2016 Football
Fifa is facing fresh embarrassment just six weeks after Gianni Infantino took over as president of world football's governing body and pledged to clean up the crisis-hit organisation.
A key member of its ethics committee, Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani, is being internally investigated for links with Eugenio Figueredo - an allegedly corrupt football official.
Damiani has acted in sensitive ethics cases involving leading football officials since July 2012.
Part of a huge tranche of leaked documents, seen by the BBC, suggest that Damiani and his firm provided legal assistance for at least seven offshore companies linked to Figueredo, a former Fifa vice-president who was arrested last May in Zurich as part of the US inquiry into football corruption.
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Discovery of his links to Damiani are the result of a leak of over 11 million documents from the internal files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that specialises in helping the wealthy and powerful set up offshore companies.
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By Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent
3 April 2016 Football
Fifa is facing fresh embarrassment just six weeks after Gianni Infantino took over as president of world football's governing body and pledged to clean up the crisis-hit organisation.
A key member of its ethics committee, Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani, is being internally investigated for links with Eugenio Figueredo - an allegedly corrupt football official.
Damiani has acted in sensitive ethics cases involving leading football officials since July 2012.
Part of a huge tranche of leaked documents, seen by the BBC, suggest that Damiani and his firm provided legal assistance for at least seven offshore companies linked to Figueredo, a former Fifa vice-president who was arrested last May in Zurich as part of the US inquiry into football corruption.
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Discovery of his links to Damiani are the result of a leak of over 11 million documents from the internal files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that specialises in helping the wealthy and powerful set up offshore companies.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35954640