We are still diving into the swamp of football referee bribery scandals, which was blown up by the statements of former Zamalek player and coach and the Egyptian national team Farouk Jaafar, who said that African referees were facilitating their task in the eighties in exchange for buying their own needs from Port Said.

And we touch in this part of the thorny file to talk about some incidents of bribery, through the rulers who have been subjected to it themselves.

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There are many ways to bribe rulers, including financial lures. In March 2011, the Egyptian press reported the refusal of the international arbitration team led by Yasser Abdel Raouf, a financial bribe of 10 thousand dollars, which can be increased, to facilitate the task of the Congolese team Mazembe in its match with Tanzanian Simba, in the 32nd round of the African Champions League.

It was said at the time that they had filed a complaint against Mazembe officials about the incident of bribery to the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the newspapers reported - quoting a source in Kef who refused to be named - that when they failed to bribe the Egyptian refereeing team, they threatened to kill him if he revealed the incident, but the arbitrators came forward. With an official memorandum for CAF against the 5-time CAF Champions League club.

Suspicions swirled around the Congolese club, and many accusations were leveled against him in the last two decades since Moise Katumbi Chappoy took over the presidency of the club in 1997, and he is a billionaire who owns a diamond mine and has close ties with CAF officials, and one of them - who refused to be named - recounts that in one of the matches he hosted him in his fortified palace With his heavily armed private guards, he showed him a large room full of money.

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Captain Mostafa Ismail, a former goalkeeper coach for Zamalek, confirms Farouk Jaafar's statements about bribing referees by Zamalek club in the African Championships, quoting K. Ibrahim Youssef

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And former international referee Hamdi Al-Qadri says - to Al-Jazeera Net - that he cannot deny the existence of corrupt, corrupt or biased rulers, because there are many incidents in which rulers have been condemned worldwide, especially in the African contests that are - according to his view - fertile soil for the weak souls Of the referees, for many reasons, including the suffering of a large proportion of the referees from poverty, the weakness of the financial reward allocated to them in the matches, and the presence of large clubs with huge funds and supporters of the rich; Stressing that all this does not justify the ruling to be bribed at all.

Al-Qadri - who was one of the most prominent assistant referees in the continent of Asia and participated in the arbitration of many important tournaments and matches - recounts his personal experience with bribery, saying, "I was not directly exposed to bribery, but I was exposed to it indirectly. I mention one of them when I was part of the FIFA World Cup refereeing team." Asian, and we were going to run a match in the AFC Champions League, and we found valuable gifts placed in our rooms on the morning of the match after we returned from eating breakfast, and immediately the referees' observer informed us of the incident and delivered him the gifts, which in turn returned them to the host team’s administration, after receiving his acknowledgment of what had happened, and we submitted a report. To the AFC, which commended the crew for their behavior. "

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Some rulers refused to tell their stories of the bribery, while some spoke, refusing to mention their names. One of the former international assistant referees - to Al-Jazeera Net - says that he was exposed to several direct bribery situations, the strangest of which was in a regional tournament with the first international match he participated in managing, as the match was several days before the Hajj season, and the referees were surprised after training with the secretary of the club hosting the match telling them that The Saudi consul is his friend and he can make us a pilgrimage in exchange for making it easier for his team to win the match that was considered revenge for them.

He adds that the arena referee was one of the experts known for their integrity, so he did not pay attention to his strange offer, and the response on the field was to expel one of the hosts of the host team, who narrowly escaped defeat and drew 1-1 at home.

The assistant referee indicates that the teams do not care much except for the arena referee who may be exposed to bribes and respond without knowing the rest of the referees in his staff, and that he discovered that one of them did this repeatedly with him, as he used to leave the crew and sleep outside the hotel after the match, under the pretext that his work required him to He meets the military attaché in another city, and after a while they discover that there is no military attaché for their country in this country.

He says that he was surprised by the same referee, after one of the matches he participated in in its management in 2006, he takes out a "package" of euros for him and tells him that he brought it to their country to buy his wife gold from the other country that they were going to, and then he discovered that the referee also did that because he knew that the country he was in was They conducted the meeting in which the money was carefully inspected when checking out from the airport, so he was afraid that the airport police would discover the matter, so he took the initiative to fabricate this story.

The ruling confirms that everyone - including the continental federation - is well aware of the teams that always try to bribe the referees, indicating that there are many honorable rulers, including a referee who was reluctant to accept any gift even if it was symbolic, such as a team kit, although it was allowed, as he refused with one of his colleagues Referees will one day purchase sportswear from international brands at the expense of the host club.

One of the former international referees also says that bribery attempts exist as long as there is a blind eye to the bribe clubs and the continuation of corrupt rulers in the stadiums, indicating that some clubs make the referee a crowning king and money may be given to him, but by women if the space is opened for that, in exchange for facilitating their task in the match, And he was exposed to that directly and indirectly in several matches.

He added that he was subjected to sexual bribery twice, one of which was directly from the attendant who was urging him to refer to any girl he liked, but he was telling him that he was a Muslim and that it was forbidden, and the other was indirectly, as two girls sat at a table next to them during a friendly session with the president The host club and some of its entourage, and were at their disposal if they asked.

The ruling continued that some clubs resort to a trick by granting the ruling an amount of money in the country's currency, under the pretext of buying his own needs from the local market, and that he refused that on one occasion, which caused embarrassment to his colleague who was inexperienced and took the money that was equivalent to about $ 300.

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