Questão 25531

(Eear 2016)

A Region’s Soccer Strongmen are facing a hard fall

After rising as a governor under Brazil’s military dictatorship, José Maria Marin became such a towering figure in the world of Brazilian sports that the headquarters of the nation’s soccer federation was recently named in his honor.

Now, the United States Justice Department’s charging Mr. Marin, 83, and 13 other senior sports officials and executives across the Americas with taking part in a sweeping bribery and kickback scheme within FIFA, the governing body of global soccer.

Of the 14 men named as defendants in the indictment, all but two of them are citizens of Latin American and Caribbean nations, a reflection of the investigation’s focus on corruption in the hemisphere.

(Fonte: www.nytimes.com)

GLOSSARY

but: exceto

bribery: suborno

headquarters: sede

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