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Fifa officials `corrupted football`

Aminul || risingbd.com

Published: 02:30, 28 May 2015   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Fifa officials `corrupted football`

The current and former Fifa executives indicted include Rafael Esquivel, Nicolas Leoz, Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and Jose Maria Marin

Risingbd Desk: US prosecutors have accused several officials from football`s governing body Fifa of racketeering, fraud and money laundering involving tens of millions of dollars over 24 years.

Prosecutors said they had discovered a dozen schemes, including one awarding the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Fourteen people have been indicted, with seven held in Zurich on Wednesday.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who is not among them, issued a statement vowing to kick out corrupt officials.

Fifa also announced a "swift and immediate provisional ban" from football-related activity on 11 of the people involved in the US prosecution.

Fifa says it still intends to hold its presidential election on Friday. Mr Blatter is favoured to win a fifth term.

 

However, European football body Uefa has called for the election to be postponed and said it would decide on Thursday whether to boycott the congress.

Swiss prosecutors have also opened a separate investigation into the bidding process for the World Cup tournaments in 2018 in Russia and 2022 in Qatar.

 

Agencies

 

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