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Blatter quiet on bribe case.


FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association]

FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f 
 president Sepp Blatter has insisted he will wait until the outcome of a corruption court case before commenting on allegations that senior football figures received bribes.

Nicolas Leoz, the president of South American football and a member of FIFA's executive committee, has been named in court documents in Zug, Switzerland, as having being paid pounds 65,000 in backhanders by officials from FIFA's former marketing agency ISL ISL - Interface Specification Language. Xerox PARC. Interface description language used by the ILU (Inter-Language Unification) system. Includes descriptions of multiple inheritance, exceptions and garbage collection.

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Six ISL employees face charges but neither Leoz nor any other FIFA official is in the dock.

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 said: "We are waiting for the judgement at the end of the case.

"Let us see what justice says and then we will have a look at that. It is a case in progress and it would be bad for me to intervene. I will comment when the case is closed."
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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date:Mar 16, 2008
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