Fox Sports partnered with a South American marketing firm to send millions of dollars in bribes to high-ranking soccer officials in exchange for lucrative broadcasting rights to major tournaments, the firm’s former chief executive testified Tuesday at the FIFA corruption trial.
Alejandro Burzaco, the former chief executive of the firm based in Argentina, testified that Fox and other broadcasters were involved in a scheme to pay bribes — concealed by using offshore side entities and sham contracts — that secured rights for the Copa América and other events.
As evidence of the scheme, prosecutors at the trial at a federal courthouse in Brooklyn produced a 2008 agreement for the partnership to pay $3.