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- Just before the FIFA Congress in Zurich, the Swiss prosecutor’s office searched the headquarters of the World Football Association and electronic data and documents ensured.
- The search was carried out in connection with a criminal case concerning the award of the FIFA World Cup 2018 to Russia and 2022 to Qatar.
- “The injured party is the Fifa,” said a spokesman for a scheduled short Press Conference of the World Football Association. He announces to want to cooperate with the prosecution.
- On Wednesday morning also six officials of the World Football Federation were arrested by the police. You will bribe accused
Fifa.: Cooperation with Prosecutor
The Fifa expressed during a press conference on the recent events. “We are working with prosecutors together”, said the spokesman Walter de Gregorio. It is in the interest of Fifa that all open questions would be answered. At the same time it was important to him to highlight the damage to their image for the world football body: “The victim is the Fifa.”
About the current investigations and of the number of Detained wanted de Gregorio say anything. You did not know about the steps the prosecution and was as surprised as the media representatives.
At the same time he announced that the scheduled for this week election of the President would be held. One of Sepp Blatter’s re-election would be nothing in the way, because he was not involved in the latest developments.
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This is why the rooms of the Fifa headquarters were searched
The Swiss prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal case about the allocations of the FIFA World Cup 2018 to Russia and 2022 to Qatar. In the context of electronic data and documents were in the headquarters of the international football association Fifa has been ensured in Zurich, the authority said. It is suspected of money laundering and kickbacks. The investigation would not run against specific persons, it said.
Previously are Swiss financial institutions have been instructed to raise the bank documents. “Today seized electronic data and documents and banking records obtained serve both the Swiss and foreign criminal proceedings,” said the prosecutor with.
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Vice President Webb among those arrested
The American judiciary is currently facing against Fifa. The US Attorney’s Office indictment raised against nine Fifa officials. They are accused of corruption and conspiracy. It’s about sums of more than 100 million dollars from the past 20 years. In total there are 14 defendants – seven of them were arrested in Zurich by the police. Among them:
- Jeffrey Webb, Cayman Islands, Vice President of the FIFA Executive Committee and key confidant of Sepp Blatter. Webb is also president of the Concacaf (North and Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation), whose headquarters is also searched.
- Eugenio Figueredo, Uruguay, also Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and, until recently, President of the South American Football Association Conmebol.
- Jack Warner, Trinidad and Tobago, a former member of the Executive Committee. He will be more ethical offenses accused (among other things it comes to the sale of tickets on the black market).
- Eduardo Li Sánchez, President of the Football Federation of Costa Rica.
Those arrested are delivered to the US authorities.
Fifa boss Joseph Blatter is not one of the accused, however, is not ruled out that he will be interrogated as a witness. The Fifa is already longer the focal point of corruption investigators (a chronology) – however, the association has repeatedly denied that important functionaries were involved
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Just recently the. former chief press officer of the job application committee of Fifa, Phaedra Almajid levied in the ARD documentary “The selling football” massive corruption allegations against Fifa important functionaries. Conceded each 1.5 million for their votes for Qatar, where the World Cup will take place in 2022, three of them are.
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