Fresh Raids In FIFA Corruption Investigation

The new series of arrests, which took place at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, come at the behest of an ongoing US investigation into corruption in worldwide soccer, according to the report. Luckily for those of us who want to see the incompetent and corrupt world soccer organization brought to its knees, it’s happening again!

Thursday’s raids were carried out by Swiss authorities in the context of a US-led investigation, the report said.

In May seven high-ranking Federation Internationale de Football Association officials were taken away from the same hotel by police.

The arrests at the behest of U.S. law enforcement agencies are part of FBI’s continuing investigation into racketeering, money laundering and fraud.

This is not the first step against Federation Internationale de Football Association and its leadership.

FIFA’s outgoing, and now suspended president, Sepp Blatter and Jérôme Valcke, his suspended deputy, were not among those arrested on Thursday, according to law enforcement.

The U.S. and Swiss investigations have breathed new life into efforts to overhaul Federation Internationale de Football Association.

Both deny wrongdoing and say they had a verbal contract to pay Platini for work as Blatter’s presidential adviser from 1998-2002.

Many FIFA leaders had arrived in Zurich this week to approve reform measures in soccer’s governing body in reaction to last spring’s revelations, following an investigtion that lasted several years. The choice of Qatar, a small desert state where summer daytime temperatures rarely fall below 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), was especially contentious and went against the advice of FIFA’s own technical committee.