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Friday, May 26, 2017
Volume:
33
Issue:
6
Abstract:
On May 24, 2017, Costas Takkas, 60 years old and a former general secretary of the Cayman Islands soccer federation, pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy linked to his receiving and sending of millions of dollars in bribes paid to the now-former Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) president and FIFA vice president, Jeffrey Webb. Takkas, a United Kingdom national, was the attaché to Webb when Takkas was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland pursuant to an indictment unsealed in May 2015 alleging various corrupt schemes in organized soccer.