Samuel Eto’o Rejects Embezzlement Allegations, Calls Claims Smear Campaign
Former Fecafoot officials say FIFA’s ethics committee has given no update on complaints over two payment instructions totaling €567,570.
- On Thursday, The Times reported that it examined invoices and contracts requesting payments totaling €567,570 to an account belonging to Eto at Qatar National Bank in Doha.
- The payments related to Cameroon's October 2023 friendly against Russia in Moscow; Eto has led the Cameroon Football Federation, or Fecafoot, since December 2021.
- Eto denied enriching himself, citing technical difficulties, while former Fecafoot executive Guibai Gatama said no evidence showed the funds entered official federation accounts.
- Formal complaints were submitted to the FIFA ethics committee over a year ago, but the organization states it is not required to provide regular updates on case outcomes.
- Questions about FIFA's handling of the complaint have intensified because Eto has publicly described FIFA president Gianni Infantino as a brother and recently supported him during a commercial dispute.
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According to the Times, the former Inter striker would have pocketed 567.570 euros after a friendly game played by his Cameroon against Russia in 2023, without then turning the sum to the Federation. It is the last chapter of a life full of events at the limit: from unpaid food to companion, to problems with tax in Spain
President of the Camaronese Football Federation (Fecafoot), Samuel Etoňo would have received € 567.5 thousand — about R$ 3.4 million in the current quote — in his personal account after a friendly between the selections of Cameroon and Russia in October 2023. The information was published this Thursday by the British newspaper, The Times. Clippers are the subject of federal investigation for alleged fraud involving Kawhi Leonard Fecafoot had not…
The former leader, current president of the Cameroonian federation, was denounced as irregularly managing funds of a friendly in Russia, which would have been transferred to a personal account of the former Barcelona and Inter player of Milan. This adds to a wide list of polemics.
The president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) is subject to charges concerning the management of a Russian payment of more than 500,000 euros. The person concerned replied, denouncing a cabal against an "African who expresses himself freely".
President of the Cameroon Federation is seen as one of Gianni Infantino's main allies in the 2027 elections
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