IL will receive a total amount of $ 500 000 to be paid in agreed tranches between the signing of this Agreement and 1 month before the opening of the FIDE General Assembly in August 2014.He will be responsible for delivering 10 + 1 vote from his region, with the effort to deliver 15 votes (not counting China). IL will actively work in the election campaign in close cooperation with GK and his team.IL shall assist GK and his team at all possible levels in the preparation, planning and execution of the election campaign.”
“GK has declared his intention to run for the office of FIDE President and IL has agreed to take the position as General Secretary in the Kasparov Team. Through this Agreement the Parties join together in order to achieve their goal of having a real change in FIDE and the Chess World. Attached was a PDF document ( for download here) which seemed to be a contract between Kasparov and Leong:
Meanwhile, the Kasparov team has put the final version of the contract on its campaign website, stressing the importance of transparency.Įxactly one week ago an email from a "Bill Warth" was sent to several chess journalists which had "THE HUGE DEAL BETWEEN KASPAROV AND LEONG" in the subject field.
Kasparov and Leong made a deal in August 2013 for the Asian region: Leong would help getting Kasparov "10+1" votes in return for large sums of money. Earlier this week a draft of a contract between Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong was leaked to chess media which raises ethical questions but also calls for more transparency in chess politics.
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