| Ex-Ferwafa official jailed over WC
tickets |
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| By Emma Nsekanabo
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| Wednesday, 21 June 2006 |
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Former local soccer governing body vice-president Celestin
Musabyimana has landed in prison on charges of forging Federation
documents to secure 200 Fifa World Cup tickets worth 29,000 Euros
from the international soccer governing body, FIFA. According to
sources within the Federation of Rwanda Football Associations
(Ferwafa), Musabyimana, |
who was a member of the old executive that left office after the
January 12 Ferwafa elections, back-dated and submitted documents to Fifa
indicating that he was still mandated to represent the Federation, yet he
was not.
Subsequently, reliable sources from the
federation told The New Times, that Musabyimana connived with one Vogt
Armin, residing in Switzerland (Fifa headquarters), to secure and sell the
tickets on the black market in Europe, but that the deal backfired when
Fifa told Ferwafa that Musabyimana had collected the tickets on Rwandas
behalf.
The tickets are availed to all national associations, to be
sold on behalf of Fifa and no individual can easily secure rights to
acquire tickets from Fifa for reselling.
Following the recent saga,
other sources said that Musabyimana could have pocketed millions from the
past two World Cups, in his capacity as Ferwafa
vice-president.
Musabyimana, who has been denied bail, is locked up at
the Kigali Central Prison famously known as 1930 and the former Ferwafa
VP, who will soon appear in court, risks losing his position as an
executive member representing the Council of East and Central African
Football Association (Cecafa) on the Confederation African Football (Caf)
Board.
Musabyimana becomes the second African soccer official to get
involved in the World Cup ticket saga, after Botswanas Ismail
Bhamjee, who sold tickets for a World Cup match involving England three
times their face value.
Bhamjee is a member of the powerful 25-member
FIFA Executive Committee and he admitted selling 12 Category One tickets
for last Thursdays England v Trinidad and Tobago match for 300 euros (380
dollars) each. They tickets had a face value of 100 euros.
Bhamjee was
forced to resign immediately from all World Cup-related duties and ordered
to leave Germany immediately.
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