ZURICH (AFP) – The investigation of suspected corruption at Fifa do are “not at halftime”, they argue: “new people and organizations” are in focus and apartments were seized in the Swiss Alps, announced Monday the Swiss Attorney General and the US Minister of Justice.
Zurich is the world capital of football. Seat of the powerful Fifa, shaken by the biggest corruption scandal in history, that it is in Zurich, May 27, seven prominent leaders of world football were arrested on the eve of the congress, which was re-elected Sepp Blatter.
It’s still in Zurich, on the occasion of a congress of the World Association of Prosecutors conveniently organized in the city, the Swiss prosecutor Michael Lauber and the US Minister of Justice, Loretta Lynch have reported on their investigation Monday.
“We expect to indict other individuals and other organizations”, beyond the 14 people already indicted nine senior leaders of world football and Five businessmen in the sports marketing industry, warned Ms. Lynch at a joint press conference, in front of about 150 journalists.
According to the US survey, launched by Ms. Lynch while still a prosecutor in New York, it was 150 million dollars in bribes and kickbacks allegedly circulated at the highest levels of football for 25 years
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Asked whether Joseph Blatter, the FIFA president resigned, would be heard by US investigators, Ms. Lynch declined to details, explaining it with humor could not comment “travel program” of Valais of 79, whose successor at the head of world football will be known on February 26, during an extraordinary congress of FIFA.
In the part of the Swiss component of the survey on the conditions of allocation of Global-2018 and 2022 to Russia and Qatar, an investigation following a complaint from Fifa itself, “financial assets have been seized, there including apartments in the Swiss Alps, “revealed his side Michael Lauber.
Without giving any names either, Mr. Lauber however, gave details on the progress of work of its investigators, including “searches” conducted several homes, “in western Switzerland”.
M. Lauber praised the cooperation of Swiss banks, which “meet their obligations”, adding that suspicious transactions involving 121 accounts were examined.
“But it is too early to specify the exact amount of seized assets” the Swiss prosecutor said, adding that he preferred “not to give this information for tactical reasons”
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M. Lauber said that facing the enormous amount of seized computer data, 11 terabytes in total, the Swiss component of the survey would be very long and is “not even at halftime,” a sports analogy .
This vast judicial operation that Blatter had qualified himself “tsunami”, is not about to stop.
“The problem of corruption in football is the world, “assured Ms. Lynch. “We will remain vigilant in our efforts to have the answer to that is global”
The American minister stressed that she shared “a principle” with Mr. Lauber and his other counterparts in the world:. That “everyone involved in football, this beautiful sport through which we teach our children fairplay, undertake reform and respect the rules of the game”.
On the basis of the charges of American justice, there is a “mole”, the American Chuck Blazer. The former general secretary of CONCACAF acknowledged having received bribes of Morocco and South Africa in connection with the award of Global-1998 and 2010. And it is working with US investigators since 2011.
Joseph Blatter, FIFA president on borrowed time since his surprise resignation June 2, just four days after his re-election, has not yet been interviewed. And until the February congress, might succeed him French Michel Platini, UEFA president and longtime member of the executive committee of FIFA, it operates quietly, without ever leaving Switzerland, preferring to avoid “travel risks. “
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