FBI charts 24 years of football's bribery and corruption
It was, as one former FA official put it, an “amazing” turn of events that “the scene of the crime” in the run-up to the votes on the 2018 and 2022 world cups should have been the location of the first in a series of arrests of Fifa officials almost five years later.
At 6am yesterday morning the five-star hotel on the shores of Lake Zurich, the site of intense lobbying for votes in December 2010, was visited by Swiss police acting on behalf of the US authorities.
Seven men were detained in total at the hotel, among them Jeffrey Webb, the Fifa vice-president, Eduardo Li, a Fifa executive committee member from Costa Rica, and Eugenio Figueredo, president of South American football governing body Conmebol from Uruguay.
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It was, as one former FA official put it, an “amazing” turn of events that “the scene of the crime” in the run-up to the votes on the 2018 and 2022 world cups should have been the location of the first in a series of arrests of Fifa officials almost five years later.
At 6am yesterday morning the five-star hotel on the shores of Lake Zurich, the site of intense lobbying for votes in December 2010, was visited by Swiss police acting on behalf of the US authorities.
Seven men were detained in total at the hotel, among them Jeffrey Webb, the Fifa vice-president, Eduardo Li, a Fifa executive committee member from Costa Rica, and Eugenio Figueredo, president of South American football governing body Conmebol from Uruguay.
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