Related News
Swiss probe 133 suspicious WCup deals
Print Edition
Swiss authorities are reviewing 133 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to the decisions by soccer’s ruling body to let Russia and Qatar host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, the Swiss Office of the Attorney General said yesterday.
That was up from the 103 cases the OAG had reported in August in its investigation of suspected corruption at FIFA, which is based in Zurich.
Russia and Qatar, a small desert country with no real soccer tradition and where daytime temperatures can top 40 degrees Celsius, have denied wrongdoing.
An OAG spokeswoman said that the suspicious activity reports came from a Swiss financial intelligence unit called the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland.
“These reports are related to the ongoing criminal proceedings around the allocation of the Football World Cup 2018 and 2022,” she added.
United States federal prosecutors are conducting a parallel investigation into FIFA’s financial conduct, and have indicted 27 soccer officials over multimillion-dollar bribery schemes for soccer marketing and broadcast rights. Twelve people and two sports marketing companies have been convicted.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
