Senior FIFA officials indicted for bribes totalling 200million United States dollars

Fair enough, but Copa Centenario organizers weren’t shy about Honduran Alfredo Hawit and Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout – the presidents of Concacaf and Conmebol, respectively – touting the integrity of the new bidding process to select commercial partners IMG and SUM for next summer’s tournament.

Several other top officials, including two other vice-presidents, were arrested at the same Zurich hotel at the request of United States authorities in May.

Among those charged were Marco Polo del Nero, a Brazilian who served on the executive committee from 2012 until last week; Rafael Salguero, a Guatemalan who left the executive committee in May; former South American confederation secretary general Eduardo Deluca; former Peru football federation president Manuel Burga; and current Bolivian football president Carlos Chaves, already jailed in his own country for embezzlement.

The arrests came as FIFA’s leaders descended on Zurich to discuss proposals aimed at reforming world football’s governing body as it reels from the worst crisis in its history.

World football’s embattled governing body has been engulfed in more scandal with another 16 officials charged over graft allegations.

The FIFA ethics bans are routine for officials indicted in the sweeping U.S. investigation.

Hawit and Napout were arrested Thursday in Zurich, where they were to attend this week’s executive committee meeting.

IRS investigator Richard Weber termed the case “one of the most complex worldwide financial investigations ever conducted”.

US Attorney Robert Capers said: “These officials were supposed to lead the confederations and Federation Internationale de Football Association itself with the fair advancement of the sport as a primary goal”.

FIFA’s ethics committee has now imposed a 90-day ban.

They make up part of the 27 indicted defendants alleged to have “engaged in a number of schemes created to solicit and receive well over US$200m (£132m, €184m) in bribes and kickbacks”.

Below is a summary of what the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment has to say about the soccer caudillos involved in the corruption schemes. Webb, who was indicted when the corruption scandal erupted earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering conspiracy.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie, lawyer Charles A. Stillman said Marin hopes to obtain a $2 million surety bond, the final item of collateral, in the next week.

The convicted defendants have agreed to forfeit more than $190m (£125m).

The latter investigation is also directed against FIFA President Joseph Blatter on suspicion of mismanagement and having made a “disloyal payment” to UEFA chief Michel Platini in 2011 for FIFA work done between 1998 and 2002.

And, speaking at a media conference, Hayatou admitted reform was required to rebuild the organisation’s shattered reputation.

Russian news agency, TASS, said that Blatter’s advisor, Klaus Stohlker, announced the Federation Internationale de Football Association official’s plan.