A cyclone hits the Fifa. Two days before the annual meeting in which sepp blatter he will try to be re-elected for the fifth time to the presidency of Fifa, facing competition from the Jordanian prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, a maxi-raid by the American and Swiss authorities has hit the top of the organization. The investigation, conducted by the Department of American justice, is underway in Zurich and involves some senior officials of the organization that leads world football.
The charge that hangs on the FIFA Executive Committee Is that of corruption, as well as money laundering, racketeering and telematic fraud, but the assignments of the venues of some world championships have also ended up in the crosshairs of the investigators. Six people have been arrested so far, but up to 14 could soon be extradited and indicted in federal court in Brooklyn.
In handcuffs, during a blitz at the Baur au Lac hotel, Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands, vice president of the Fifa Executive Committee; Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay, also Vice-President of the Executive Committee; Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago, former Committee member.
The very president Sepp Blatter, on the other hand, was not hit by an arrest warrant, but this investigation, and the statements of the investigators who define the Fifa as an organization where corruption is institutionalized, risk representing the umpteenth stain on a curriculum vitae, and on an image, certainly not immaculate, two days before the elections that should reconfirm him as president of world football.
