British Virgin Islands, Caymans and Turks & Caicos feature heavily in justice department indictment of senior football officials
British overseas tax havens play a key role in what US authorities have called “rampant, systemic and deep-rooted” corruption in the world of football, analysis by the Observer reveals.
The 164-page US Department of Justice indictment, outlining the case against the 14 football officials and marketing executives who were arrested last week, shows that three of Britain’s overseas territories – the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos, all tax havens – allegedly played a part in masking kickbacks between officials and executives.
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