A newspaper claims it has a 2007 email that shows FIFA President Sepp Blatter and then-South African President Thabo Mbeki held “discussions” over a $US10 million ($A13 million) payment to allegedly corrupt executives.

South Africa’s Sunday Times reports that the email from FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke to the South African government asks when the $US10 million will be transferred.

The newspaper says that in the email, which it has not published, Valcke writes that the $US10 million is “based on discussions between FIFA and the South African government, and also between our President (Blatter) and President Thabo Mbeki”.

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Sepp Blatter announced he would step down from FIFA in the future. Photo: Getty

American investigators allege that the $US10 million payment to world football’s governing body was in return for three senior FIFA executives voting for South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup.

The BBC has reported that disgraced former FIFA vice president Jack Warner pocketed the $US10 million.

The BBC said the 72-year-old Trinidadian laundered money through a supermarket chain, made cash withdrawals, paid off his credit cards and took personal loans from the sum.

South Africa says the money, paid in 2008, was intended to pay for football development for the African diaspora in the Caribbean, where Warner was the longtime football baron.

Jack Warner has been accused of taking a $10 million bribe.

Warner has also denied any corruption.

In three transactions, funds totalling $US10 million were moved from FIFA’s bank into an account of Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), which was controlled by Warner.

The BBC said JTA Supermarkets, a large chain in Trinidad, received $US4.86 million.

The money was paid in instalments from January 2008 to March 2009. The largest payment was $US1,350,000 paid in February 2008.

US prosecutors say the money was mostly paid back to Warner in local currency.

The documents also show $US360,000 of the FIFA money was withdrawn by people connected to Warner.

Nearly $US1.6 million was used to pay Warner’s credit cards and personal loans.

Warner’s credit cards were the destination for money allegedly part of a bribe, according to emails. Photo: Shutterstock

The documents show the largest personal loan Warner provided for himself was $US410,000. The largest credit card payment was $US87,000.

Warner has proclaimed his innocence since being arrested on May 29 at the request of US authorities who have sought charges against 14 top football officials and sports marketing executives.

The former Trinidadian security minister is currently free on bail of $US400,000 bail pending a decision in his extradition case.

Warner – still a powerful member of parliament in Trinidad and Tobago – has taken out paid advertisements in the Trinidadian media, published articles in local newspapers and held rallies with his Independent Liberal Party to defend himself.

The South African payment is a central part of a US case that FIFA officials took bribes totalling $US150 million over two decades.