Former Fifa supremo Joao Havelange and his ex-son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira have been fingered in a new scandal that has rocked world football’s governing body.

Sepp Blatter disclosed today that he expects at least one member of Fifa’s executive committee to leave his post because of the ISL kickbacks case.

“It does look like some people won’t be able to stay on the executive committee,” Blatter told a German newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Teixeira heads the Brazilian 2014 World Cup organising committee and has been linked to the 10-year-old scandal that has cast a shadow on much of the incumbent Fifa president’s reign.

Fifa has promised to publish Swiss court papers next month identifying senior officials who took payments from ISL. The marketing agency owned World Cup television rights until its 2001 bankruptcy with debt of more than R2-billion.

In 2010, Fifa said two senior officials repaid kickbacks then worth R350-million on condition of anonymity. It has since blocked the court in Zug from releasing documents.

British broadcaster BBC has named the officials as Teixeira and Havelange, the long-time Fifa president who Blatter succeeded in 1998.

Blatter has distanced himself from some of his executive committee, saying the members “have varying concepts of ethics and morals”.

“I didn't choose them and I can’t be held accountable for their actions. I’m the figurehead of this organization, but I’m not a dictator,” he said.

However, Blatter defended controversial CAF president Issa Hayatou, who was also named by the BBC for taking around R150 000 from ISL in 1995. Hayatou said it was a gift for the governing body.

“According to the CAF accounts, which we also examined, the money has been correctly accounted for,” Blatter said.
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