South Africa involve in a $10 million scandal with FIFA

South Africa has denied that a $10 million payment it made in 2008 was in any way a bribe to Fifa for the 2010 World Cup, in the most recent turn to the monstrous scandal outrage immersing the world football's governing body.

Two different examinations are being completed by American and Swiss authorities for claimed uncontrolled and long-running corruption inside Fifa, with a few top authorities arrested and blamed by US investigators for taking tens of millions of dollars in bribes.

A few top football authorities have been addressed by Swiss specialists, and Fifa's president Sepp Blatter too could be questioned  "in future if needed", said  Swiss prosecutors.

The greatest ever outrage to shake world football ejected Wednesday when seven Fifa authorities were arrested in their Zurich hotel as a major aspect of the US probe.

They and seven others were charged for racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies that kept running from 1991 to the present day, and blamed for taking or scheming to request $150 million in bribes.

An illustration refered to in US papers was the 2004 selection process for the 2010 World Cup, with investigators asserting that South African authorities paid $10 million to previous Fifa vice president Jack Warner - one of the 14 prosecuted – in order to secure the bid.

South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan affirmed on Sunday that the organizing committee made an installment of $10 million in 2008, yet insisted this was not a reward.

"I haven't paid a bribe or taken a bribe from anybody in my life. We don't know who is mentioned there (in the indictment)," Jordaan told the Sunday Independent.

"How could we have paid a bribe for votes four years after we had won the bid?" Jordaan said, including that the payment was South Africa's contribution towards Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football's (Concacaf) football development fund.

Warner, who was then additionally president of Concacaf, has impacted the US, saying charges against him and other Fifa authorities "comes from a lost (American) offer to host the 2022 World Cup".

The 72-year-old surrendered to police in Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday, yet has kept up his purity all week. He was discharged subsequent to paying $400,000 in bail.

Swiss autherities were in the interim running a parallel test into claims of bribery in the process over the disputable awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

A Swiss justice representative said top football authorities were met as people who could provide information", without giving further details.

He included that Blatter "will not be questioned at this stage. If necessary, he will be in the future".