Swiss police have arrested at least twelve FIFA peaks in a New dawn raid.
Just over half a year after the big scandal, when a number of corrupt suspects bigwigs got busted, hit it again.
The majority were arrested at the same luxury hotel in Zurich as the last raid, writes The New York Times.
In May rocked the football world when police raided a luxury hotel in Switzerland.
Several high ranking within the international football association FIFA was accused of corruption, money laundering and racketeering.
On Thursday morning began a new wave of arrests – partly on the same hotel as six months ago.
According to The New York Times broke the Swiss police at six o’clock on Thursday morning, and this time it’s about a dozen FIFA peaks have been arrested.
Just about the last time is the union bosses suspected of corruption and money laundering.
The hotel owner is reported to have asked the hotel guests in the lobby to leave the building during the raid when it was an “extreme situation”.
The newspaper said that the union’s president, Sepp Blatter, is not one of those who have been arrested.
In 2015, the scandals succeeded each other.
Sepp Blatter has been interrogated by the police, Michel Platini suspected of taking bribes and several of the union’s main sponsors, including Coca-Cola, has threatened to terminate the cooperation unless Blatter leaves.
In addition, the data on bribery in connection with the championship was arriving.
Both the World Cup in Germany, South Africa, Qatar and Russia have been named in the scandal.
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