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High-ranking members of FIFA in Switzerland arrested because of suspicions of corruption in the United States. They may be extradited to the US The Swiss Justice confirms that six people were arrested.
The Swiss police have started early this morning with the arrest of several high-ranking officials. They were in Zurich met for their annual meeting. A dozen plainclothes police would have arrived at their luxury hotel, and at least two men in handcuffs are put out, writes New York Times .
According to the American newspaper ran one agent out of the hotel with proof pockets where money and drugs in seemed to sit. The newspaper mentions the name of a stakeholders from Costa Rica, which is brought out through a side exit.
Institutionalized corruption
The reason for the arrests are suspicions of widespread corruption at FIFA in the last twenty years. It would be money laundering, corruption in the allocation of World Championships and mismanagement in marketing deals and trade in broadcasting, according to three people involved in the investigation against the newspaper.
US prosecutors want charges against more than FIFA announce ten employees. Not all suspects are now in Zurich. Among them are people from the Cayman Islands, Uruguay and Trinidad and Tobago. “We were stunned at how long this could go through and how it touched almost every part of the FIFA”, said a participant in the criminal investigation against The New York Times. It was evidently their way of doing business, the researcher noted. “It seems that corruption was institutionalized.”
Bad timing for FIFA king
Much of the research revolves around Concacaf, the Football Association for North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The US and Mexico are covered. The confederation was between 1990 and 2011, led by Jack Warner from Trinidad and Tobago. This important figure in the governing body of the FIFA Executive Committee, is one of the suspects. He was earlier suspected of illegal profits from the sale of ticket for the World Cup in 2006 and the withholding of bonuses for players from the national team of Trinidad and Tobago. Later today, follows a press conference.
The timing of the arrests is not exactly favorable to Sepp Blatter, sixteen years president of FIFA. He is not a suspect, but he would Friday be re-elected for a fifth term. The question is whether the vote can go through, writes the chief of our sports editors, Erik van der Walle.
The 79-year-old Swiss has been below fire for corruption around the allocation of the World Cups of 2018 Russia and 2022 to Qatar. But corruption or not, the confederations of Africa (54 countries) and Asia (46) have indicated to vote again on the man who provided their continent football riches. In Central America and the Caribbean enjoys support Blatter.
KNVB president Michael van Praag dong until last week also along for the FIFA presidency. He withdrew to form a front with Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, wrote sports editor Maarten Scholten.
From Prague tried it with an election promise that all member countries 750 thousand euro extra would get out of the FIFA reserves of around 1.5 billion. But Amnesty International called him “the best candidate” in the lobby of football circuit drivers was the son of the famous Ajax chairman Jaap van Praag chance. Only Suriname pledged so far to a voice, already screened it yesterday with great support from Europe, which has a total of 54 votes
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