FIFA President, Sepp Blatter said, Monday, that he once handed back a bribe when he was given an envelope which turned out to be stuffed with cash.

Blatter said he had never been involved in any corrupt practices but revealed that he had been targetted for a bribe when he was FIFA’s secretary general- though he refused to name the person involved.

He said: ‘I received once an envelope, when I was secretary general and in this envelope there was an amount of money.

“I couldn’t refuse because he put it in my pocket. I came home here to FIFA and gave it to the finance director and he put this money on the account of the Swiss Bank Corporation at that time, and informed the guy ‘the money you gave to the secretary general is in that bank’ and a few days later he reclaimed it.

“Then it was specifically known that please don’t try to give money to somebody who’s in the FIFA.”