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FIFA president Gianni Infantino FIFA has completed its 22-month investigation into the corruption scandal that brought world football’s governing body to its knees in 2015 and handed over more than 20,000 pages of exhibits to the Swiss authorities. Launched soon after the dramatic arrest of several top officials at a luxury Zurich hotel before the…
Newly-elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino FIFA plans to reclaim millions of dollars pocketed illegally by corrupt FIFA members and other football officials, newly-elected FIFA president Gianni Infantino has revealed. A US investigation exposed widespread corruption at the top of world football and FIFA estimates that, at a minimum, tens of millions of dollars were diverted…
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Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has been banned for life by FIFA’s ethics committee and described as a “key player” involved in illegal payments. Warner, who is fighting extradiction from Trinidad to the USA on corruption charges, resigned from FIFA in 2011 following a bribery scandal and has not…
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Jack Warner Interpol has issued ‘international wanted persons’ alerts for two former FIFA officials and four corporate executives as part of the investigation into football-related corruption. The ‘red notices’ have been issued at the request of the US justice department for charges including racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner from Trinidad and…
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