FIFA president Sepp Blatter has confirmed that world football's
governing body will investigate 15 suspicious transfers involving
English
clubs, after the FA passed on concerns of possible
irregularities.
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Blatter: More transfer trouble
Quest, who are the FA's independent auditors of transfers,
compiled the list of deals, dating back to the start of last
year.
The transfers involve players moving to and from England between
January 2008 and January 2009 and are in addition to the 15 deals
already being looked at by FIFA following Quest's original
investigation between 2004 and 2006.
Blatter said: "We are not a police force and cases have to be
reported to us but our executive committee will be discussing these
new cases in Brazil next week."
It means that 30 deals are under the scrutiny of FIFA at a time
when English football is coming to terms with Chelsea being banned
from registering any new players for "inducing" Gael Kakuta to
breach his contract with French club Lens.
However, the 15 new cases are understood to relate to
irregularities or incomplete information regarding agents, rather
than the type of illegal approach alleged in Kakuta-gate.
A FIFA spokesman said: "In accordance with the 2008 players'
agent regulations, these cases fall under the FIFA disciplinary
committee."
The original Quest investigation into alleged "bungs" covered
the 362 transfer deals that took place between January 2004 and
January 2006. FIFA is yet to rule on the findings of the initial
investigation and considering it took two years to rule on
Kakuta-gate it could be a long, drawn out process.