Lopez and Martinez вЂњrelied on loyalty secured through the payment of bribes,вЂќ according to the indictment. They are also accused of using inside information to help Fox win the English-language rights in the United States to televise the 20 World Cups. According to the prosecutors, the pair participated in a scheme that paid millions of dollars in bribes to officials of South AmericaвЂ™s continental soccer federation, in order to direct how the officials awarded broadcast rights for the Copa Libertadores, South AmericaвЂ™s premier club soccer competition. Lopez, 49, was the president and chief executive of Fox International Channels, and Martinez, 51, was the president of Fox Networks Group Latin America. This was the first time the federal government had formally accused Fox, which won the rights to televise the 20 World Cups, or any of its executives of wrongdoing.Дuring the 2017 trial, Burzaco accused Fox of bribing officials, an accusation that the company denied at the time. Two of the sports media executives who were charged in MondayвЂ™s indictments, Hernan Lopez and Carlos Martinez, formerly worked for international subsidiaries of 21st Century Fox. Last May, almost a year after Russia staged the World Cup, Gianni Infantino, who came out of relative obscurity to secure the FIFA presidency after the corruption scandal took down almost all of the organizationвЂ™s senior leadership, received the Order of Friendship medal from President Vladimir V. Officials at RussiaвЂ™s soccer federation and FIFA did not reply to an email sent after business hours to request comment. None of the former soccer officials were immediately available for comment. Rafael Salguero, a Guatemalan soccer official who pleaded guilty in 2016 to money laundering and fraud charges, was promised $1 million to give his vote to Russia, the indictment said. Some of the money, the indictment said, came вЂњfrom companies based in the United States that performed work on behalf of the 2018 Russia World Cup bid.вЂќ since 2015, received $5 million through a string of shell companies to vote for Russia.

prosecutors also stated in MondayвЂ™s indictment that the former soccer official Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago, who has been fighting extradition to the U.S. Leoz and Teixeira were indicted in 2015 on charges related to bribery schemes to sell lucrative soccer rights to sports broadcasters. The third man, Ricardo Teixeira, the former leader of soccer in Brazil, remains in that country, which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. Another, NicolГЎs Leoz, died in Paraguay last year while under house arrest and fighting extradition to the United States. One of the officials, Julio Grondona of Argentina, died in 2014. Three South American officials, according to the indictment, received payments to vote for Qatar. Qatar, a tiny desert state that has spent billions of dollars to prepare for the 2022 World Cup, defeated the United States in a runoff by a group of voters that had already been trimmed because two members had been secretly filmed agreeing to sell their votes. Russia defeated England and joint bids from Holland-Belgium and Spain-Portugal to host the 2018 menвЂ™s tournament. prosecutors on Monday explicitly revealed details about money paid to five members of FIFAвЂ™s top board ahead of the 2010 vote to choose Russia and Qatar as hosts. Never before, though, have prosecutors so clearly described the scheme that helped deliver the votes that gave Russia and Qatar hosting rights for one of the worldвЂ™s biggest sporting events. The accusations were the latest in a yearslong corruption case that has already produced convictions of numerous soccer officials and executives as well as depositions from former leaders of FIFA, world soccerвЂ™s governing body. Prosecutors made the accusations in an indictment charging three media executives and a sports marketing company with a number of crimes, including wire fraud and money laundering, in connection with bribes to secure television and marketing rights for international soccer tournaments. After years of investigations and indictments, the United States Department of Justice on Monday said for the first time that representatives working for Russia and Qatar had bribed FIFA officials to secure hosting rights for the World Cup in menвЂ™s soccer.

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