Fifa investigation: US Attorney General expects further arrests – Tagesspiegel

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US Attorney General Loretta Lynch expects further arrests in Fifa scandal. At federation boss Joseph Blatter said nothing.

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The name of the hard ailing FIFA President Joseph Blatter dropped until the very end of the statement by US Attorney General Loretta Lynch. And yet the words of the prominent accuser leave room for interpretation: Even the football’s world governing body and its outgoing chief could in the biggest corruption scandal of the FIFA story threatens legal trouble

“I’m expecting a next round of arrests.. It may be that we find more suspicions, “Lynch said on Monday in an overcrowded hotels in Zurich hall. Only at the weekend new suspicions Blatter were famous

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So far, 14 people are -.. including nine former soccer officials and five businessmen – accused of corruption. 13 of them were arrested. But it seems only a matter of time until you reach more arrests and indictments. In sight of the judiciary “individuals and organizations” are, as Lynch and almost identical wording of the Swiss federal prosecutor Michael Lauber formulated.

Whether against Blatter is determined, Lynch did not share with

29 cameras were trained on the two top investigators. Nearly 150 journalists from around the world wanted to know more about the new ongoing since the end of May to the investigation of corruption and bribery allegations within and outside the Fifa World. Explosive detection dogs checked the pockets of all those present before Lynch and Lauber ansetzten to its nearly 25-minute press conference and then would allow a half-dozen questions

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For the big news was however obviously too early. “Clearly, we are not even close to half-time,” said Lauber, of the studies for the award of the controversial World Championships in Russia in 2018 and Qatar derives 2022nd Let there be a lot longer than the “legendary 90 minutes”. After betraying Lauber that searched on suspicion of money laundering for flats and houses in the Swiss Alps and 121 bank accounts had been examined in more detail.

Among the arisen over the weekend alleged suspicions against Blatter Lauber could not say anything yet. According to a report on Swiss television, the FIFA President to have a remarkably low price at one of the accused in the Fifa affair, the former vice-president Jack Warner, sold ten years ago TV broadcasting rights. This should have this resold for several times and have also procured in return Blatter at more electoral votes.

Lauber stressed that examine in this case, but received an opinion only on Sunday evening by FIFA have , The one or the other version could be every now and then interpreted as a small tip against Fifa. Some involved “parties” hope it is a little more open and closer cooperation, Lauber pointed out – he also mentioned the Fifa or the retiring from office Blatter unnamed. (AP)

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