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Swiss probe 133 suspicious WCup deals
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Swiss authorities are reviewing 133 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to the decisions by soccer鈥檚 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.
鈥淭hese reports are related to the ongoing criminal proceedings around the allocation of the Football World Cup 2018 and 2022,鈥 she added.
United States federal prosecutors are conducting a parallel investigation into FIFA鈥檚 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.
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