CONMEBOL recovered money from Nicolás Leoz and Eduardo Deluca in the FIFA Gate causes
January 2016 became a key month for the new restructuring of CONMEBOL. With the inauguration of Alejandro Domínguez, the new president made the improvement of the image of the South American Confederation a priority and also the recovery of capital that were intervened by his predecessors and that are part of the FIFA Gate.
Those words today are beginning to become facts, given that the Swiss Prosecutor's Office took CONMEBOL's request to see it as a “victim” institution of its leaders and not as a “criminal organization” as it was named in 2015. Circumstance that allowed to the South American Confederation to recover 37 million dollars from private accounts of Nicolás Leoz and Eduardo Deluca.
This historic step for CONMEBOl joins those that had already begun to be taken in Paraguay, when it was returned 16 million dollars by Leoz's heirs, and in the United States with the sum of US $ 550,000; reaching 57.5 million dollars in total. It should be noted that what has been achieved in the United States is only a first step, and the lawyers of the South American Confederation are optimistic that the amount will be even higher.
The strategy that Alejandro Domínguez started in January 2016 was called “Clear Accounts”, but today it has been renamed to “Clear Rules”. Its main axis is the recovery of funds appropriated irregularly by former directors of the Institution. And it seeks to impose transparency, justice, clear rules and the reinvestment in football of the resources generated by football itself.
