Botswana implicated in FIFA corruption

Friday, June 26, 2015

A journalist tasked by an American law enforcement agency to investigate possible corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and the 2022 World Cup bids alleges Botswana benefited from kickbacks.

Kushatha Ndibi, an investigative journalist with e-Botswana was tasked with unearthing corruption around the two bids, which have seen the arrest of high profile former and sitting FIFA members. She was contracted over a three-year period, from 2010 to 2013.

Her brief was to travel throughout Africa in a bid to uncover corrupt CAF activities linked to the awarding of the two bids.

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Botswana implicated in FIFA corruption

A journalist tasked by an American law enforcement agency to investigate possible corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and the 2022 World Cup bids alleges Botswana benefited from kickbacks.