Maintenance in progress

while the world cup quarterfinals hold global attention, corruption stories surfaced simultaneously in three federations: a journalist alleges argentina's football association routed roughly 42 million euros of world cup prize money through inactive florida shell companies, south korea's federation chairman faces illegal ticket-sales allegations at a hearing critics call hollow, and an indian broadcast-rights bid was allegedly derailed by forged documents from an investor claiming ties to trump and infantino. the money and governance beneath the spectacle is stirring on three continents at once, in the exact window when the games absorb the crowd.

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