Brit's ablaze over Chuck Blazer FBI informant work; Parliament member asks Fraud unit to investigate
Before Chuck Blazer could toss his bugged key fob on a table to secretly record fellow international soccer executives at the 2012 Olympics, he had to get approval from Scotland Yard.
That approval — and Blazer’s actions — may hold the keys to help unlock the secrets of global soccer’s legendary corruption.
After the Daily News reported exclusively Sunday that Blazer, a disgraced American soccer executive and former member of FIFA’s executive committee, had spied on his colleagues on behalf of the FBI and IRS at the 2012 London Games, a member of Britain’s parliament called for a probe by his nation’s Serious Fraud Office, an arm of that country’s criminal justice system.
Damian Collins of the House of Commons told The News he wants to know more about the meetings in which Blazer recorded officials with a device hidden inside the fob of a keychain, and whether that act and the approval by the Metropolitan Police, the modern name for Scotland Yard, provide enough jurisdiction for London authorities to investigate.
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