Steps to cure football corruption in Poland will be launched after the 2012 European Championship, government spokesman Pawel Gras said Thursday commenting corruption charges against Poland's Football Association PZPN, local media reported.

Last Friday a PZPN official disclosed a video tape indicating corruptive intent by PZPN head Grzegorz Lato and the association's secretary Zdzislaw Krecina in connection with a new PZPN building in the Warsaw suburb Wilanow. Later that day Sport Minister Joanna Mucha said that she had notified the prosecution about the matter.

Lato has denied the charges and on Monday said that he had sent a letter on the matter to FIFA and UEFA and supplied clearing documents to Minister Mucha and the Polish prosecution. On Wednesday PZPN officially recalled Krecina from his post in the organisation.

Gras said on radio Thursday that, moves to sanify the situation at PZPN would be undertaken after the championship as "violent moves" were uncalled for in the runup to the event.

"I think the situation (at PZPN) should be put in order after the championship", Gras said, adding that "everyone's slightly worn out by the PZPN affair".
Earlier on Thursday in a report on the affair to parliament's sport committee, Lato confirmed Krecina's ouster from PZPN and assured that the charges against the organisation were under investigation.

The 16-nation Euro 2012 soccer championships, slated for June 8-July 1, 2012, will take place in four Polish cities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Poznan as well as four Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Lvov, Donetsk and Kharkov.


Two top Croatian soccer officials were under detention for taking bribes and rigging matches, police said on Friday.

Croatia football federation (HNS) vice-president and former referee Zeljko Siric and head of the national refereeing association Stjepan Djedovic had also their cars and houses searched.

Local media reported that the two were detained after taking 30, 000 euros (40,000 dollars) in bribes from an undercover agent to fix Croatia's first division matches.

Croatia launched a probe into suspicious games in late 2009 after receiving information from German police.

The country's anti-graft prosecutor last December charged 19 Croat and two Slovenian nationals suspected of being involved in fixing first division football matches.