• Secretary general was suspended on Thursday pending investigation
• Sepp Blatter confident Fifa can recover from ‘difficult situation’Jérôme Valcke tried to secure a multimillion-pound payoff from Fifa this month,shortly before he was suspended as secretary general, it has emerged.
Valcke, or the accurate-hand man of the embattled Sepp Blatter since 1997,was suspended on Thursday and placed on indefinite leave in the wake of allegations he had colluded to sell 2014 World Cup tickets above face value. His case is being investigated by Fifa’s ethics committee. Emails seen by the Guardian appeared to suggest that Valcke knew tickets were being sold at up to five times their face value by the JB Sports Marketing consultant Benny Alon, although those emails are incomplete and could be open to other interpretations.
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Source: theguardian.com