08-09-2014, 12:34 PM
It was Ray Wheelan, head of FIFA "Partner" Match Hospitality turned himself in to police some days later. Clearly he got a tip off to run, but that doesn't appear to have been followed up by the sleuths in Brazil. It is suggested that he might also have been a "partner" in an "international gang" that has made $90 million in illegal world cup ticket sales. Wheelan claimed that his flight from arrest was to give him time to prepare documents for his defence.
I can't help but contemplate that his "preparation" possibly involved the use of copious amounts of lighter fluid. Just guessing, obviously.
In the run up to the 2014 world cup, Mr. Wheelan apparently exchanged over 900 telephone calls with Algerian ticket pimp, Lamine Fofane, for the sale -- for cash -- of "hospitality packages" at $25,000 a throw -- presumably flogged off, in part anyway, by FIFO officials who didn't have an actual use for the tickets themselves? Just guessing, obviously.
Since the publication of the above linked story on 5th August 2014, there's not been another peep about him or the corruption charges. Maybe paying a bribe, er, fine (oh gosh, sorry about that typo!), is all it takes in Brazil to make something as small and insignificant as this to go away? Just guessing, obviously.
Meanwhile, on the Cayman Island money laundering issue, I gotta larf one more time when I consider that under FIFA rules, a player can get red-carded for the most innocuous thing - without hope of appeal - whereas, an apparently corrupt FIFA official merely is "asked" to "share" his experiences about being arrested in the Cayman Islands. Maybe he will do so over cocktails, canapés and call-girls with his FIFA colleagues after an exhausting work day back-pocketing cash from selling football tickets to dodgy ticket touts? Just guessing, obviously.
I can't help but contemplate that his "preparation" possibly involved the use of copious amounts of lighter fluid. Just guessing, obviously.
In the run up to the 2014 world cup, Mr. Wheelan apparently exchanged over 900 telephone calls with Algerian ticket pimp, Lamine Fofane, for the sale -- for cash -- of "hospitality packages" at $25,000 a throw -- presumably flogged off, in part anyway, by FIFO officials who didn't have an actual use for the tickets themselves? Just guessing, obviously.
Since the publication of the above linked story on 5th August 2014, there's not been another peep about him or the corruption charges. Maybe paying a bribe, er, fine (oh gosh, sorry about that typo!), is all it takes in Brazil to make something as small and insignificant as this to go away? Just guessing, obviously.
Meanwhile, on the Cayman Island money laundering issue, I gotta larf one more time when I consider that under FIFA rules, a player can get red-carded for the most innocuous thing - without hope of appeal - whereas, an apparently corrupt FIFA official merely is "asked" to "share" his experiences about being arrested in the Cayman Islands. Maybe he will do so over cocktails, canapés and call-girls with his FIFA colleagues after an exhausting work day back-pocketing cash from selling football tickets to dodgy ticket touts? Just guessing, obviously.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14