FIFA headquarters searched, documents seized – prosecution
ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP) — Swiss investigators have searched FIFA’s Zurich headquarters and seized documents, the country’s prosecution authority said on Friday, while FIFA said the search targeted sacked deputy general secretary Markus Kattner.
“As part of the ongoing criminal investigations in the FIFA affair, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) carried out a search of FIFA’s headquarters on 2 June 2016 with the aim of confirming existing findings and obtaining further information,” it said in a statement.
“Documents and electronic data were seized and will now be examined to determine their relevance to the ongoing proceedings.”
The OAG provided no further details, but FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer told AFP that Kattner’s offices had been searched.
Swiss investigators have searched FIFA’s Zurich headquarters and seized documents, the country’s prosecution authority said on Friday, while FIFA said the search targeted sacked deputy general secretary Markus Kattner.
“As part of the ongoing criminal investigations in the FIFA affair, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) carried out a search of FIFA’s headquarters on 2 June 2016 with the aim of confirming existing findings and obtaining further information,” it said in a statement.
“Documents and electronic data were seized and will now be examined to determine their relevance to the ongoing proceedings.”
The OAG provided no further details, but FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer told AFP that Kattner’s offices had been searched.
Die Welt newspaper reported that Infantino had improperly ordered the destruction of the minutes of a FIFA executive committee meeting held at last month’s congress in Mexico city.
According to the paper, FIFA’s independent ethics committee was looking at the issue and could impose a 90-day ban on the new president if the allegation was confirmed.
But Fischer said the allegations were baseless, and a spokesman for the ethics committee’s investigatory arm, Roman Geiser, told AFP that “there are no formal proceedings going on against Mr Infantino”.
