Attorney General gets access to Valcke’s emails

FIFA has given permission for the Swiss Attorney General to examine the email correspondence of its suspended Secretary-General Jéròme Valcke, who is accused of involvement in a World Cup ticketing scam. Valcke denies allegations that he engineered a marketing contract to sell tickets at the 2014 World Cup at inflated prices and that he stood to personally gain financially from the deal. FIFA’s second most powerful executive and number two to President Sepp Blatter was put on leave on September 16 and is now subject to an internal investigation by FIFA’s ethics committee. The media-generated accusation resulted in the Attorney General’s office demanding access to Valcke’s emails. Permission was granted by FIFA on Thursday afternoon. “FIFA informed the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) to unseal all email accounts belonging to Jéròme Valcke, suspended Secretary-General. Therewith, the OAG will have access to Mr Valcke’s email accounts as requested,” ...