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FIFA asks Nepal to clarify use
of funds
Post Report
KATHMANDU, March 12: Football’s world
ruling body FIFA has asked several national football associations including Nepal to
clarify the use of its funds, international wire agency Agence France Presse reported
Wednesday in its news dispatched from Zurich.
Nepal, Vietnam and Chile were given until April
to clarify the use of FIFA funds, the agency reported.
World football’s governing body FIFA has
cut off all aid to Somalia, Burundi and Puerto Rico after they failed to supply a proper
record of how the money had been used.
A source at the All Nepal Football Association
(ANFA), however, clarified that it was just a regular process to remind national
association as regards maintenance of book keeping. Nepal has already submitted all
details on the usage of FIFA’s funds. It was simply a minor inquiry in order to clear
up few points, the source said.
FIFA paid each country one million dollars over
a four-year period from 1999-2002. They were due to receive a further million dollars for
2003 to 2006.
Somalia’s federation president Farah
Weheliye Addo has been suspended from all football activities worldwide for two years for
accusing FIFA of irregular financial practices.
Addo was also ordered by a Swiss court to pay
10,000 Swiss francs (7,500 dollars) to FIFA president Sepp Blatter for slander.
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