FIFA sends internal probe report to Swiss prosecutors

FIFA said that it had sent a 1,300-page internal report to Swiss authorities investigating corruption and that Bern will share the findings with US officials also probing graft in football

Lausanne: FIFA said that it had sent a 1,300-page internal report to Swiss authorities investigating corruption and that Bern will share the findings with US officials also probing graft in football. 

Open criminal investigations in both countries targeting former football executives prevented FIFA from disclosing details of its investigation, the body said in a statement. But a source familiar with the FIFA report told AFP it “contains a lot of emails, contracts”.

FIFA began its investigation in June 2015, one month after Swiss police acting on a US warrant raided a Zurich hotel and arrested seven football executives, triggering the largest corruption scandal in the history of the sport. The report is based on a review of more than 2.5 million documents, interviews with “key witnesses” and is focused on “issues of primary concern to the Swiss and US authorities”, the statement said. US prosecutors have indicted 40 football and sports marketing executives over allegedly receiving tens of millions of dollars in bribes.

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