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Andrew Jennings was born on 3 September, 1943 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, is an English investigative reporter (1943–2022). Discover Andrew Jennings's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, author
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 3 September 1943
Birthday 3 September
Birthplace Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Date of death 8 January, 2022
Died Place Carlisle, England
Nationality Scotland

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1943

Andrew Jennings (3 September 1943 – 8 January 2022) was a British investigative reporter.

He was best known for his work investigating and writing about corruption in the IOC and FIFA.

Jennings was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, on 3 September 1943.

His father worked as a school headmaster; his mother was a housewife.

He was the grandson of a former Clapton Orient player.

His family relocated to London when he was a child.

Jennings attended the University of Hull, and first worked at the Burnley Evening Star.

1960

Jennings became part of the Sunday Times' Insight team during the late 1960s.

He went on to work as an investigative reporter on BBC Radio Four's Checkpoint, probing into cocaine trafficking and murders carried out by the Sicilian Mafia.

1974

Jennings was married to Janeen Weir until her death in 1974.

They had one daughter together and two children from Janeen’s previous marriage.

He was subsequently in a domestic partnership with Clare Sambrook until his death.

They had two children together.

1986

In 1986 the BBC refused to broadcast his documentary concerning corruption in Scotland Yard.

Jennings consequently resigned and transposed the material into his first book, Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection.

The documentary was aired by World in Action.

Jennings subsequently worked for Granada, filming several international investigations and small documentaries.

1989

His investigation of British participation in the Iran–Contra affair won the gold medal at the New York TV Festival in 1989.

1993

He entered Chechnya in 1993 with the first western TV crew ever to enter the country, to investigate Caucasus mafia activity.

1997

He worked with World in Action in 1997, with an investigation on British Olympic swimming coach Hamilton Bland.

One year later, he presented a documentary on rail privatisation.

2006

Jennings' first appearance on Panorama, a current affairs documentary television programme, came in June 2006 (episode entitled "The Beautiful Bung: Corruption and the World Cup"): Jennings investigated several allegations of bribery within FIFA, including million-dollar bribes to secure marketing rights for the body's sports marketing company ISL along with vote-buying (to secure the position of FIFA president Sepp Blatter), bribery and graft attributed to CONCACAF president Jack Warner.

2007

It was followed up in October 2007 with an episode entitled "FIFA and Coe" exploring the relationship between former British Olympian Sebastian Coe and the FIFA Ethics Committee.

2010

The most prominent programme was FIFA's Dirty Secrets (first aired on 29 November 2010), which was a 30-minute investigation of corruption allegations against some of the FIFA executive committee members who were to vote on the host for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

2014

Jennings alleged that Ricardo Teixeira, President of Brazil's Football Federation (CBF) and of the 2014 World Cup Organising Committee, Nicolás Léoz of Paraguay, President of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), and Issa Hayatou from Cameroon, President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) all accepted bribes from a television marketing firm.

2015

In December 2015, he presented a summary of the investigations into FIFA entitled Fifa, Sepp Blatter and Me for BBC's Panorama.

Jennings suffered a stroke in 2015 during a visit to New York.

He died on 8 January 2022 at a hospital in Carlisle.

He was 78, and suffered an aortic aneurysm prior to his death.