Football: Fifa audit chief Scala quits over threat to reforms
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Domenico Scala, chairman of the Fifa's Audit and Compliance Committee, at the Extraordinary Fifa Congress in Zurich, on Feb 26, 2016.
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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - The head of Fifa's independent audit committee Domenico Scala quit on Saturday (May 14) in protest at what he called attacks on reforms of the scandal-tainted world football governing body by its leadership.
Scala said he was "consternated" by a Fifa Council move to control the nomination of members of independent oversight bodies such as its ethics committee and audit and compliance committee.
The Swiss official has played a key role in pushing through reforms after the scandals that claimed the heads of former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini.
