CONMEBOL to reform after graft scandals

LIMA: CONMEBOL will meet Wednesday to adopt reforms which will increase transparency after the FIFA corruption scandal, in which it played a starring role.

LIMA: CONMEBOL will meet Wednesday to adopt reforms which will increase transparency after the FIFA corruption scandal, in which it played a starring role.

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CONMEBOL is due to approve a series of new statutes drafted after its past three presidents were all arrested in a US-led probe into massive corruption at world football’s governing body.

“The new statutes are a decisive step in the reform agenda we have been spearheading,” president Alejandro Dominguez said.

“Their approval will allow us to implement the changes needed to build a new CONMEBOL that operates at the highest standards of professionalism.”

Dominguez’s three immediate predecessors — Uruguayan national Eugenio Figueredo and Paraguayans Juan Angel Napout and Nicolas Leoz — are all under indictment in the United States: in connection with a probe into multimillion-dollar bribery allegations which culminated in the downfall of Sepp Blatter.

Dominguez said CONMEBOL wants to protect football from “the corruption and bad practices of the past.”