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\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n Dec 11 (Reuters) – African soccer’s governing body <\/span><\/p>\n Hayatou told the IOC’s ethics commission that he was paid by <\/span><\/p>\n “President Hayatou never received the said sum for his <\/span><\/p>\n “It is recalled that the general principle of law, which is <\/span><\/p>\n “CAF regrets that all documents and evidence provided were <\/span><\/p>\n Hayatou was not an IOC member at the time the payment was (Writing by Pritha Sarkar in London, editing by Mark Meadows)<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dec 11 (Reuters) – African soccer’s governing body (CAF) said it was “disappointed” that its president Issa Hayatou has been reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) even though the Cameroonian admitted receiving payments from a defunct firm at the heart of a corruption affair. Hayatou told the IOC’s ethics commission that he was paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(CAF) said it was “disappointed” that its president Issa Hayatou
\nhas been reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee
\n(IOC) even though the Cameroonian admitted receiving payments
\nfrom a defunct firm at the heart of a corruption affair.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nFIFA’s former marketing agency International Sport and Leisure
\n(ISL) in 1995. The IOC said such an action constituted a
\nconflict of interest and reprimanded him.<\/p>\n
\npersonal account and could not, therefore, use it for personal
\nneeds. No conflict of interest, therefore, can be charged
\nagainst him,” CAF said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\nbinding on all, provides that the accused should be given the
\nbenefit of doubt.<\/p>\n
\nnot considered, even as its Executive Committee had approved the
\ndonation as recorded in its minutes. Rejecting all these
\ndocuments demonstrate disrespect and lack of consideration of
\nthe IOC towards the Pan-African institution.”<\/p>\n
\nmade and the decision on Thursday does not affect his duties or
\nrights within the IOC. \t<\/p>\n