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A source close to Hani Abu Raida, a member of the Executive Council of the African Football Confederation (CAF) and the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), denied that he was present during the trip to Umrah, which was one of the reasons to detain former CAF president Ahmed Ahmed from football activity for a time. 5 years.
A source close to the former head of the Egyptian Football Association told FilGoal.com: “This photo was from a trip to Umrah, in Ramadan 2019, in which Abu Raida paid his personal expenses by himself. The photo was taken on 16 May 2019, on the sidelines of the Arab Federation meetings where Abu works. Raida is the Federation’s vice president. “
The source emphasized that “Abu Raida was not present during the trip to Umrah, which was one of the reasons for Ahmed’s suspension, which was in May 2018, in Ramadan of that year.”
He revealed that “FIFA summoned the heads of the federations that traveled on that trip to a hearing last Thursday, and Abu Raida was notified not to attend because he was not present on that trip.”
On the other hand, a source from Kav confirmed that Abu Raida was not present on the trip and described the circulating document as a revelation of the trip, with Abu Raida’s name on it, as “incorrect”.
On April 4, 2019, Amr Fahmy, former secretary general of the African Football Confederation (CAF), filed a complaint with the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) for serious economic irregularities committed by the Malagasy Ahmed Ahmed during his tenure as president of the CAF, which ends on Monday with the decision of FIFA.
Fahmy, who died last February, had Ahmed suspended from any football activity for a period of 5 years, with a fine of 200,000 Swiss francs.
Among those violations, according to Fahmy’s complaint, Ahmed paid nearly $ 100,000 of KAF funds to conduct Umrah trips to Muslims from the heads of African civil unions.
A sufficient delegation, which met first in Cairo, included Ahmed Ahmed, employees of the presidential office and 15 heads of civil unions.
The CAF president’s office at the time informed the union’s financial director that the aforementioned amount ($ 100,000) was the cost of a meeting between Ahmed and the 15th president in Cairo during the month of Ramadan, while the trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be the responsibility of Ahmed.
But this did not happen, and it sufficiently covered travel and accommodation expenses in Saudi Arabia, and Ahmed only paid $ 10,000, as he treated himself as FIFA vice president on a special assignment with the CAF, before returning the $ 10,000 in September 2018 and just that amount was paid from Umrah’s Travel Expenses in total.
