FIFA rocked by fresh bribery allegations

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/slides/2011-05/27/content_12595032.htm

FIFA on Wednesday summoned Asian Football Confederation leader Mohamed bin Hammam and FIFA vice president Jack Warner to an ethics hearing Sunday to face allegations of corruption during the Qatari official's campaign visit to Trinidad two weeks ago. The timing and the source of the allegations, longtime Warner ally Chuck Blazer of the United States, gives them a gravity not seen with FIFA's other scandals.
Bin Hammam hopes to end Blatter's 13-year presidency in a June 1 vote of FIFA's 208 national members. But he could wind up barred from the vote in Zurich if the ethics panel decides to provisionally suspend him from all football duties while it prepares its case - leaving the 75-year-old Blatter clear to claim a fourth and final four-year term atop the governing body for the world's most popular sport.
Bin Hammam denied wrongdoing and suggested, on "a difficult and painful day for me," that the accusations were instigated by Blatter's camp. "This move is little more than a tactic being used by those who have no confidence in their own ability to emerge successfully from the FIFA presidential election," bin Hammam wrote in a statement published on his official website.