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Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber said 11 terabytes of information had been seized “so far”.

Much of Fifa’s contracts and finances during Blatter’s 17-year presidency now seem open to investigation.

As of Monday, 121 different bank accounts have been brought to the attention of task force by the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS).

Properties in the Alps have been seized in a separate Swiss investigation.

Lauber said it was too early to give a specific figure of frozen assets, remarking that he preferred not to divulge any numbers “for tactical reasons”.

Lynch did not comment when asked if it was safe for Blatter to travel freely again.

Lynch said she was “hopeful” that all would be sent to the US.

Warner sublicensed the rights to a family company and sold them on for up to $20 million.

Warner is among the 14 men indicted in May.

Federation Internationale de Football Association said the Caribbean body, long controlled by Warner, “made several breaches to the contract and failed to meet its financial obligations”. He remains in his native Trinidad and Tobago contesting a United States bid to have him extradited. The defendants had been charged with almost 50 counts of corruption, including charges of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud.

They are facing trial and another four individuals have pleaded guilty.

USA attorney generals are not in the habit of giving news conferences overseas, but an invitation from her Swiss counterpart to address a prosecutors conference in FIFA’s home town was too good an opportunity to pass up. SRF posted excerpts from the contract on its website, showing Blatter and Warner signed it themselves.

You can nearly imagine US Attorney General Loretta Lynch cracking her knuckles and saying, with a wry smile, “we’re just getting started”.

From the Swiss city of Zurich, the prosecutor confirmed that the course of its investigation has no limit.

She said: “Our message is clear: no individual is impervious to the law”. “For individuals who have a choice to return soccer to its old ways of corruption or to move into what we feel is the way soccer should be run, to comport with the integrity of the sport”.

She said that frequent demands for crackdowns on crime from the public were often hard to put into practice.

Key to the United States case has been the cooperation of Chuck Blazer, the former head of the CONCACAF region responsible for football governance in north and central America and the Caribbean. His second-in-command was Chuck Blazer, an American soccer official who lived in outrageous luxury in the Trump Tower. They have prima facie evidence.

Lauber and Lynch did not reveal the subject of new enquiries.

The Swiss justice ministry has said it would rule on the remaining extradition requests in the coming weeks.