FIFA To Investigate CAF’s Financial Transactions

Football’s world governing body FIFA is keen to investigate a host of financial transactions carried out by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) following an audit into the continent’s ruling body.
A joint CAF-FIFA task force ‘believes more information is necessary and recommends further investigations’ into several areas, including CAF’s dealings with French company Tactical Steel.
The 2017 deal with Tactical Steel was notable as CAF cancelled an order worth just under $250,000 with sportswear company, Puma to take up an alternative order costing four times as much with Tactical Steel, a company with links to a close associate of CAF President Ahmad.
The Task Force’s recommendations come, after FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura’s six-month tenure as General Delegate for Africa ended earlier this month.
Samoura was appointed to the role last August in a bid to help improve the governance of African football.
When her role ended, the joint task force delivered a series of findings, recommendations and proposals to CAF’s top executives at a meeting in Morocco on 2 February.