{"id":281903,"date":"2017-01-05T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281903"},"modified":"2017-01-05T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T13:11:09","slug":"caf-president-issa-hayatou-referred-to-egyptian-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281903","title":{"rendered":"Caf president Issa Hayatou referred to Egyptian prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has been referred to Egyptian prosecutors for investigation over allegedly abusing his position.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is a deal awarding the broadcast rights to several African football tournaments to a media company, Lagardere Sports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Egyptian Competition Authority, Hayatou is suspected of not opening up the tender to free and fair competition as required by Egyptian law.<\/p>\n<p>Caf is based in Cairo so the authorities say it must follow their laws.<\/p>\n<p>African football&#8217;s governing body had no comment to make, while Hayatou could not be reached.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old is currently in Abjua, Nigeria ahead of Thursday&#8217;s Caf annual awards.<\/p>\n<p>Hayatou was elected as Caf president in 1998 and is serving his seventh term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Lagardere is not the subject of the referral, but says the allegation is wholly unfounded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer id=\"story-footer\" class=\"story-footer\">\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\">Source: BBC<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has been referred to Egyptian prosecutors for investigation over allegedly abusing his position. At issue is a deal awarding the broadcast rights to several African football tournaments to a media company, Lagardere Sports. According to the Egyptian Competition Authority, Hayatou is suspected of not opening up the tender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}