Switzerland’s role
Peter Gilléron, President of the Swiss Football Association, told the FIFA congress earlier that Switzerland had done its bit by bringing the sun to Zurich today. Transparency International thinks Switzerland should actually do more...
Yesterday TI Switzerland called on Swiss lawmakers to beef up laws to make sporting organisations headquartered here behave themselves.
Switzerland plays host to the majority of global sporting HQs (around 60) and does quite well out of this arrangement – pulling in more than CHF1 billion every year from these entities.
TI Switzerland thinks this windfall comes with a duty to ensure the sports bodies behave like good global citizens.
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