Juan Pedro Damiani (born June 14, 1958) is a Uruguayan lawyer, and a former member of the

FIFA Ethics Committee The FIFA Ethics Committee is one of FIFA's three judicial bodies. It is organized in two chambers, the ''Investigatory Chamber'' and the ''Adjudicatory Chamber''. Its duties are regulated by several official documents, most importantly the ''FIF ...

. Damiani resigned from the

on 6 April 2016, following allegation in the

Panama Papers The Panama Papers ( es, Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 ...

, connecting him to fellow Uruguayan

Eugenio Figueredo Eugenio Hermes Figueredo Aguerre (born 10 March 1932 in Santa Lucía, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan and American association football executive and former footballer. In May 2015, he was banned by FIFA Ethics Committee. Biography As a footballer, Fi ...

, the former FIFA vice-president arrested in 2015 by the United States Department of Justice on corruption charges.

National career

Damiani was president of the

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

an Peñarol Montevideo football club for eight years from 2008 until 2016. He was credited with opening Peñarol Montevideo's new stadium, the Campeón del Siglo, in 2016. Three years after his FIFA scandal, Juan Pedro Damiani had officially announced that he would run again for Peñarol's presidency in the elections in December 2020.

International career

Damiani was a member of FIFA's Ethics Committee from 2006 until his resignation on 6 April 2016. After Gianni Infantino took over the FIFA presidency in 2016, an investigation revealed the corrupt relationship between Damiani and Eugenio Figueredo, the former FIFA vice-president. Figueredo was charged by U.S. authorities with fraud and money laundering for his role in the alleged bribery conspiracy. It turns out Damiani and his company provided legal assistance to at least seven offshore companies linked to Figueredo. The revelation of the relationship was the result of more than 11 million documents, the so-called Panama Papers leaked through the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung from a Panama-based law firm specialising in helping wealthy and influential offshore firms.

References

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