Danny Jordaan, the chief organizer of South Africa’s 2010 World Cup events, and Molefi Oliphant, a former president of the South African Football Association, were named in a criminal complaint alleging corruption in the vote by FIFA to select the 2010 tournament host.
South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, said it had filed papers with the police asking them to investigate the men over a payment of $10 million by South Africa to Jack Warner, a former FIFA vice president.
The United States authorities have said that Chuck Blazer, a former FIFA executive committee member, acknowledged that the money was a bribe in return for FIFA executives’ support for South Africa in the 2004 vote.