A former chairman of FIFA’s governance committee who accused top FIFA officials of pressuring him to ignore regulations said Saturday that if asked, he would provide specifics at a British parliamentary hearing this week.
The testimony, to be given under a grant of immunity, could raise troubling new ethics questions for FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, whose critics remain skeptical of his commitment to leading the organization, world soccer’s governing body, into a new era of transparency and good governance.
The former FIFA official, Miguel Maduro, was appointed by Infantino in 2016 to be the body’s independent head of governance.