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Old November 6th, 2017 #1
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Default Fifa corruption trial opens in New York

Fifa corruption trial opens in New York

It was the raid that changed the face of the world's most popular sport. Swiss police swooped in on a five-star Zurich hotel at dawn, arresting seven soccer officials at US request.

Two and a half years later, the only defendants detained in the United States who continue to profess their innocence will go on trial.

When US prosecutors unveiled a years' long investigation on May 27, 2015, the allegations were dumbfounding: a quarter of a century of endemic corruption in the heart of Fifa, soccer's governing body. Forty-two officials and marketing executives, and three companies were indicted in an exhaustive 236-page complaint detailing 92 separate crimes and 15 corruption schemes to the tune of $200 million.

It was the biggest corruption scandal in the history of soccer.

https://www.thelocal.ch/20171105/fif...ns-in-new-york
 
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