FIFA: Blatter, deputies paid themselves $80M

June 04, 2016 03:04

FIFA is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons after its own lawyers revealed that former president Sepp Blatter and two of his colleagues awarded themselves pay raises and bonuses totaling $80 million over their final five years in office.

Lawyers for world football's governing body allege that Blatter, along with former secretary general Jerome Valcke and former deputy secretary general Markus Kattner, made "a coordinated effort" to "enrich themselves" between 2011 and 2015.

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