Fifa denies that Blatter's aide approved US$10m payment
It says former finance chief who died last year authorised payment to Jack Warner, who faces US corruption charges
Zurich
FIFA on Tuesday admitted that it had processed a US$10 million payment from South Africa to a disgraced football official but denied that the world body's secretary general Jerome Valcke was involved.
Fifa said that a former finance committee chief who died last year, Argentine Julio Grondona, authorised the payment which went to Jack Warner.
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