World swimming body FINA has pledged to “take all measures deemed necessary” after its vice president was implicated in a FIFA bribery case in an American court. “FINA is aware of the media reports concerning the allegations against its first vice president, Husain al-Musallam,” the governing body said Wednesday in a statement to The Associated Press. Al-Musallam has been OCA director general since 2005 and a vice chairman for international relations with the Kuwait soccer body. That panel is chaired by Al-Musallam’s long-time boss, Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait, the OCA president who is “co-conspirator 2” in the American legal documents. The IOC said in a statement Saturday that the sheikh informed the IOC and FIFA ethics panels of the allegations.

Source: Indian Express May 03, 2017 13:30 UTC