After months of "damning stories" and rumors surrounding "financial corruption in the Liberian FA" and its "controversial" president, Musa Bility, the investigatory chamber of FIFA’s Ethics Committee stepped in to investigate, according to Paul Nicholson of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. Early reports "are that their findings are explosive." Bility called a meeting on Wednesday informing first and second division clubs that FIFA "was carrying out an audit and that FIFA Ethics had sent a three-man delegation to investigate." He told the clubs that LFA Treasurer Jallah Corvah had admitted sending fake account documentation to FIFA. Bility said that "he had not signed the documentation sent to FIFA but that his signature had been forged." Corvah has reportedly admitted to sending $600,000 to Bility’s wife, Denise, for their Stone Haven guest house and more than $100,000 to his son Sidiki Bility. Both sums were from the LFA account. Bility said that his signature was forged and he did not authorize any money. The FIFA investigation team is being led by Jonathan Brown, a partner at business risk consultancy Control Risks (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 12/21).
IN MALI: The BBC reported FIFA appointed a normalization committee to run the affairs of the Malian FA (FEMAFOOT). The decision "follows the current deadlock" affecting FEMAFOOT and comes after two missions to Bamako dispatched by FIFA and the Confederation of African Football. The new committee's "main task will be to hold elections" for a new FEMAFOOT exec committee before April 30 (BBC, 12/20).
