On an extraordinary day where the reputation of football’s world governing body plumbed new depths, Michael J Garcia accused Fifa’s head judge of misrepresenting his report into the bidding for the next two World Cups and announced he would appeal a verdict which looked to have lifted the threat of the controversial 2010 ballot being…

The U.S. said Qatar and Kuwait aren’t doing enough to block the financing activities of the extremist group Islamic State, exposing a sore point in a coalition formed to fight the militants. “Both countries have more work to do,” Mr. Cohen said on Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington think tank. The…

The banks — HSBC, Barclays, Standard Chartered, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Credit Suisse, European institutions that all have a major presence in New York — did not deal directly with the militants. But they have acknowledged transferring billions of dollars on behalf of Iran, which has long been suspected of funding and training…

Una sociedad vinculada al titular de Helvetic Service Group, Néstor Marcelo Ramos –presunto testaferro de Lázaro Báez– compró el 40% de las acciones del FC Lugano, el principal club de fútbol del Cantón suizo del Ticino. La operación reafirma los lazos de ese deporte con el dispositivo internacional de sociedades atribuidas al empresario K. Source : http://www.perfil.com/politica/Caso-Baez-la-trama-del-lavado-desnuda-negocios-con-el-futbol-20140817-0010.html