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On May 27, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) disclosed a 47-count, 164-page criminal indictment charging seven FIFA executives with having received $150 million in bribes over a period of more than two decades. Those seven were arrested by Swiss police at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zürich, where FIFA was based, and were jailed.
Dec 21, 2015 · World football has been convulsed by the US investigation. Fifa, football's world governing body, has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since summer 2015, when the US Department...
The bidding process was originally scheduled to start in 2015, with the appointment of hosts scheduled for the FIFA Congress on 10 May 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] On 10 June 2015, FIFA announced that the bid process for the 2026 FIFA World Cup was postponed.
Sep 25, 2015 · From a dawn raid at a five-star hotel to a man hurling stacks of money at Sepp Blatter, the FIFA scandal has had it all. Here’s a look at how the story began, and where it may go.
May 27, 2015 · Here's what it's all about. A FIFA logo sits next to the entrance to the FIFA headquarters on May 27, 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss police on Wednesday raided a Zurich hotel to detain...
Mar 31, 2017 · Nearly two years after a sweeping corruption case first felled top leaders of FIFA, the Swiss-based governing body for international soccer announced on Friday that it had cataloged its...
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The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
