Jeffrey Webb, the disgraced former Fifa vice-president, has admitted abusing his position to obtain bribes and said that it was common practice for sports marketing companies to pay kickbacks to football officials.
The transcript of Webb’s guilty plea has been released by a judge in New York after he admitted to seven charges, including money laundering and receiving bribes for TV rights.
“I abused my position to obtain bribes and kickbacks for my personal benefit,” Webb, who holds dual Cayman Islands-British citizenship, told the judge. The 51-year-old was the most high-profile of the officials arrested in a swoop on a luxury hotel in Zurich in May last year.
He said that he was told in 2012 that sports marketing companies would offer “side payments” or