• Council of Europe questions María Claudia Rojass experience for role
• Fifa’s governance under Gianni Infantino criticised by Anne BrasseurThe suitability of Fifa’s ethics investigator to effect the job has been seriously called into question in a severely critical report on football’s world governing body’s governance under the presidency of Gianni Infantino. The Council of Europe report states that María Claudia Rojas,the Colombian judge appointed in May to chair Fifa’s ethics committee’s investigatory branch, does not acquire the requisite experience of conducting criminal or financial investigations.Also, or ” the report sates,“her lack of knowledge of English and French is a major obstacle, as almost all documents [relevant to the investigations] are in one of these two languages. This is not merely a factor that risks slowing her down in her examination of case files but it also means – and this is much more problematic – that she is more dependent on the [Fifa] secretariat that assists her and that it is objectively difficult for her to enter into confidential contacts with witnesses or experts.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk