{"id":18524,"date":"2019-06-06T13:12:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18524"},"modified":"2019-06-06T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:12:26","slug":"caf-president-ahmad-arrested-questioned-by-french-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18524","title":{"rendered":"CAF president Ahmad arrested, questioned by French authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Confederation of African Football president Ahmad Ahmad was being questioned by French authorities in Paris on Thursday morning, world football&#8217;s governing body FIFA said.<br \/>\nAhmad, a former Malagasy cabinet minister, had been reported last month to FIFA&#8217;s ethics committee for alleged corruption and sexual harassment by CAF general secretary Amr Fahmy, who was then fired.<br \/>\nAmong the allegations are claims Ahmad forced CAF to buy sportswear through a French company rather than directly from manufacturers and at inflated prices.<br \/>\n&#8220;FIFA is unaware of the details surrounding this investigation and is therefore not in a position to make any comment on it specifically,&#8221; FIFA said in a statement.<br \/>\n&#8220;FIFA is asking the French authorities for any information that might be relevant to investigations taking place within its Ethics Committee.&#8221; (Reporting by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<br \/>\nBy <strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Confederation of African Football president Ahmad Ahmad was being questioned by French authorities in Paris on Thursday morning, world football&#8217;s governing body FIFA said. Ahmad, a former Malagasy cabinet minister, had been reported last month to FIFA&#8217;s ethics committee for alleged corruption and sexual harassment by CAF general secretary Amr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}