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          Swiss Authorities Make More Arrests in FIFA Corruption Probe

   by VOA News

   Swiss authorities have made a new round of arrests in the FIFA
   corruption scandal, detaining a group of FIFA officials at the same
   Zurich hotel where the first round of arrests took place in May.

   The New York Times reported Thursday that more than a dozen people were
   expected to face charges after the latest arrests at the Baur au Lac
   hotel. The Times reported that several of the officials were from South
   and Central America and were suspected of involvement in racketeering,
   money laundering, and fraud.

   The report named Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, president of CONCACAF, the
   governing body for soccer in North America, Central America and the
   Caribbean, and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, president of South
   American soccer's CONMEBOL governing body, among those arrested.

   FIFA officials were gathered at the hotel to discuss proposals aimed at
   reforming soccer's governing body after long-term allegations of
   corruption that culminated in criminal investigations by the United
   States and Switzerland.

   On November 18, suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European
   football chief Michel Platini lost their appeals against provisional
   90-days bans by the FIFA ethics committee.

   The provisional ban stops Platini from working as UEFA president and
   halted his candidacy for the FIFA election on February 26. Blatter is
   also barred from his FIFA presidential office after 17 years.

   Platini's lawyers quickly criticized a "uniquely one-sided, unjust and
   biased" investigation against him.

   Blatter and Platini were suspended in October, engulfed by the
   deepening corruption scandal.
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