FIFA has fired its finance director of the past 13
years, removing another fixture of the Sepp Blatter presidential era in
another round of revelations about irregular million-dollar payments.
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Kattner’s exit on Monday May 23,2016 came after he spent several months in his
highest profile role at the scandal-rocked world soccer body as its
interim top administrator promoting FIFA’s wish to change its tainted
culture even as his links to other investigations added up.
FIFA
said Kattner was fired after an internal investigation said he
allegedly broke his legal responsibilities to the organization “in
connection with his employment contract.”
The
45-year-old German official was due payments worth millions of dollars
over a six-year period from 2008-14 from additions to his contract, a
person familiar with the FIFA investigation said on Monday.
The
extra payments were known to then-president Blatter and then-secretary
general Jerome Valcke, Kattner’s immediate boss in that period.
“We
don’t yet understand why these payments were made,” the person said on
condition of anonymity as details of the investigation are confidential.
“These contract provisions were not known widely and not to the
appropriate officers at FIFA.”
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