“We’re not even reached half-time,” said the Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation at a press conference Monday afternoon in Zurich with Loretta Lynch, the US Minister of Justice.
Michael Lauber has explained that new evidence could be obtained as part of the investigation into the awarding of the 2018 World Championships and 2022 “Financial assets were also seized, including apartments in Swiss Alps “, listed the Attorney General without specifying the amount entered for” tactical reasons “. At present, 121 bank accounts are examined by the Swiss justice. “By its nature, this survey will take well over 90 minutes,” Judge Michael Lauber. A figure recalled by Switzerland, shows the scale of the survey: 11, as the number of terabytes (11,000 gigabytes or 2340 or DVD) of input data
Meanwhile, four months after. first seven arrested by the Swiss police, Loretta Lynch said that the fourteen persons indicted for “racketeering, fraud, corruption, fraud and money laundering” Thirteen were arrested in the vast investigation into corruption “endemic” in Fifa. Three of them are currently in the United States. An extradition request is under investigation for the other ten. “We expect to initiate proceedings against other people and other organizations,” said Loretta Lynch.
Lauber and Lynch declined to provide more details on each individual case. What about Sepp Blatter? The outgoing president of FIFA, in recent days accused of having sold the TV rights for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, he will one day be prosecuted or heard in turn by US investigators? Loretta Lynch preferred to avoid the subject, explaining everything with a touch of humor that she could not comment on “the travel program” of Switzerland.
INTERACTIVE TIMELINE. FIFA to the business heart of corruption since 2010
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