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FIFA Files Criminal Complaint Against Blatter Over Museum

Associated Press

   GENEVA - FIFA has filed a criminal complaint against former president
   Sepp Blatter over the finances of its loss-making soccer museum in
   Zurich.

   Soccer's governing body said on Tuesday it suspected "criminal
   mismanagement by FIFA's former management and companies appointed by
   them" to work on the museum-- long seen as a pet project of Blatter's
   --in a renovated and rented city center building.

   The FIFA World Football Museum opened in 2016 after $140 million of
   soccer money was spent refurbishing the 1970s office building to also
   include 34 rental apartments.

   It was meant to open around May 2015, when Blatter won a fifth
   presidential election, but was delayed until after he left office amid
   pressure from American and Swiss investigations of international soccer
   officials.

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