Overview
- The New York Times disclosed Monday an ethics complaint alleging CONMEBOL president Alejandro Domínguez and another official received more than $5 million from funds recovered after the 2015 FIFA corruption cases.
- Sources cited by the paper say the complaint was filed with FIFA’s Ethics Committee and that senior FIFA officials have known about it for more than a year.
- CONMEBOL says it has no formal knowledge of any complaint, with FIFA and Domínguez declining to respond to requests for comment.
- The handling of the case highlights FIFA’s secrecy around ethics investigations since 2016, raising questions about oversight and what, if anything, the committee will do next.
- Domínguez took office in 2016 after the FIFA Gate fallout, and the report links the alleged payments to money CONMEBOL recovered, including funds once tied to former chief Nicolás Leoz.