ZURICH (AP) — The International Olympic Committee will investigate FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou over allegations he took secret cash from FIFA’s former marketing agency.
The IOC says it will ask British state broadcaster, the BBC, to pass on evidence from an investigation into alleged FIFA corruption which was screened Monday.
Cameroon’s Hayatou, a long-standing IOC member and president of Africa’s football confederation, allegedly received 100,000 French francs from the ISL agency in 1995.
The IOC says it has zero tolerance for corruption and will refer the matter to its ethics commission.
Hayatou and two other FIFA executive committee members alleged by the BBC to have taken payments will vote on Thursday for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts.
