US prosecutors investigating FIFA corruption believe Sepp Blatter’s top lieutenant made 10 million dollars in bank transactions central to the bribery probe into the world football governing body.<br /><br /> Jerome Valcke, FIFA’s secretary general is described in New York federal court papers cited by Reuters as an unidentified “high-ranking FIFA official” who in 2008 transferred the money to another FIFA official Jack Warner.<br /><br /> Valcke has not been accused of any wrongdoing.<br /><br /> One of the most powerful executives in Brazilian football Ricardo Teixeira is facing charges of money laundering and tax evasion in Brazil. <br /><br /> The former president of the country’s football federation is accused of contravening currency laws.<br /><br /> A senior police official said on Monday the former head of South America’s football federation Nicolas Leoz was under house arrest in Peru. Leoz had been a member of FIFA’s executive committee for more than ten years. <br /><br /> Earlier in the day a judge ordered the eighty-six year old’s
