Fifa head of security Chris Eaton is now expected in Zimbabwe on Saturday.
This was confirmed by the Fifa Media Office in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday morning.
“We can confirm that Chris Eaton will be in Zimbabwe as of tomorrow (Saturday),” it said.
Zifa chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze said Eaton will meet with the board, the investigating committee, the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) and the Anti-Corruption Unit.
“He is expected to be accompanied by their chief investigator Terry Steans,” he said.
In the long ongoing investigation into match-fixing allegations involving their national team, the Warriors have already seen the suspension of three top Zifa officials following recommendations made by a four-man investigating team.
Three Zifa board members Solomon Mugavazi, the Northern Region chairman, Methembe Ndlovu, the board member (development) and second vice-president Kenny Marange, have been suspended from all football activities until cleared or otherwise by the proposed Ethics Committee.
Mugavazi has, in the interim, been replaced by Saidi Sangula, Ndlovu by Benedict Moyo, who is also board member (competitions) and Marange by Ndumiso Gumede, the first vice-president.
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Zifa first vice-president Gumede led the probe team, which also included board members — Elliot Kasu, Fungai Chihuri and Benedict Moyo.
The quartet came up with a 162-page report whose findings have since been copied to Fifa, Caf, the SRC, the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture.
“All these trips and subsequent games undertaken have a consistency in the pattern of events and evidence/submissions made clearly indicate that all trips/matches organised to Asia and Cecafa in Kenya were for personal gains by the syndicate.
“All the personnel, in particular the technical teams, were into it a big way and they understood the rules of match-fixing very well and their benefits to them. It was by no fluke that someone travelled more than once to those games.”
Gumede’s team also listed the players, coaches and officials who were part of the trips and tabled the number of games they took part in during the Warriors and Young Warriors trips and as well as coveringd 2008 Premiership champions Monomotapa’s farcical tour of Malaysia in July 2009.
They came up with a cocktail of recommendations which include:
A disciplinary committee to be established according to Fifa statutes that is Fifa disciplinary code used
Cases of a criminal nature be handed over to the law enforcement arms of the country
Assets acquired using proceeds from the games to be confiscated to the benefit of football development programmes
Personnel that are not or were not under the jurisdiction of Zifa be dealt with according to Fifa disciplinary code Article 62
Those called to appear before the disciplinary committee and decided not to avail themselves then must be dealt with according to Fifa disciplinary code Art. 62
Members of the investigating committee be exempted from being members of the disciplinary committee
