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| Factbox - Soccer officials arrested in Switzerland | |  REUTERS - Brief biographies of the nine current and former FIFA officials indicted on Wednesday for racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. ...
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| Pakistan seeks FBI help to investigate firm accused of faking diplomas | | | By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has asked U.S. authorities to help it investigate Axact, a software firm accused of earning millions of dollars from the international sale of bogus university degrees online, officials said on Wednesday. Pakistani police also arrested the head of Axact in the early hours of Wednesday following a raid on the company's diploma printing operations, and registered a criminal case against him, investigators said. The interior ministry wrote to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday seeking assistance. |
| Swiss justice office says has blocked bank accounts in FIFA probe | |  The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said it had blocked accounts at several banks in Switzerland after police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday in U.S. and Swiss corruption cases. "Further to three U.S. requests for legal assistance, the FOJ has also ordered the blocking of accounts at several banks in Switzerland through which bribes are claimed to have flowed as well as the seizure of related bank documents," the office said in a statement. The FOJ said a further wanted soccer official had been arrested on a request from the United States and named Eugenio Figueredo, Eduardo Li, Jose Maria Marin, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Jeffrey Webb, and Rafael Esquivel as the seven officials currently in detention pending extradition.
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| Swiss arrest top global soccer officials in U.S., Swiss corruption cases | |  By Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday, announcing a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups and plunging the world's most popular sport into turmoil. In addition to the Swiss criminal probe, nine football officials and five sports media and promotions executives face extradition to the United States on corruption charges involving more than $150 million in bribes, U.S. authorities said. Of those 14 indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, seven officials of soccer's governing body FIFA, including FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, were arrested in Zurich.
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| FIFA says Blatter to seek 5th term despite arrests | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's governing body FIFA called the arrest of six of its leading officials on bribery charges a "difficult moment" but said it would not derail President Sepp Blatter's bid to win a fifth term in an election on Friday. At a news conference in Zurich, FIFA spokesman Walter De Gregorio struck a defiant tone, saying a criminal investigation into FIFA's awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups was unrelated to the looming leadership vote. It confirms that we are on the right track." Asked if the election of the FIFA president would go ahead, he added: "There was never such an idea to postpone the congress nor the election, one thing has nothing to do with the other." Several high-ranking soccer officials, including two vice-presidents of FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition to the United States.
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| Swiss open criminal proceedings tied to 2018, 2022 World Cup bids | | | By Joshua Franklin and Alice Baghdjian ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have opened criminal proceedings against individuals on suspicion of mismanagement and money laundering related to the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA soccer World Cups in Russia and Qatar. Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) also said in a statement on Wednesday it had seized data and documents stored in computer systems at FIFA. The OAG said the criminal proceedings, which were opened on March 10, are separate to a U.S. criminal investigation into the allocation of media, marketing and sponsorship rights for soccer tournaments. |
| FIFA arrests will not affect Russia 2018 World Cup - Russian soccer official | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The arrests of officials from soccer world governing body FIFA will not affect Russia's hosting of the 2018 World Cup, an official at the Russian Football Union told Reuters on Wednesday. General Secretary Anatoly Vorobyov also said that current FIFA president Sepp Blatter was likely to be re-elected for a fifth term despite the arrests. "Looking at how things stand, Blatter is without doubt the odds-on favourite," Vorobyov told Reuters by phone. (Reporting by Dmitry Rogovitskiy, Writing by Jack Stubbs, editing by John Stonestreet) |
| Nine FIFA officials, five others indicted on corruption charges - DoJ | |  Nine high-ranking soccer officials, including two current vice-presidents of world governing body FIFA, and five sports marketing executives have been indicted on federal corruption charges, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. The 47-count indictment unsealed in a federal court in New York charged the defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies as part of a scheme that spanned more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. "The indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States," U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in the statement.
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| Singapore detains two "self-radicalised" teens, one aimed to join IS | | | Singapore has detained two "self-radicalised" teenagers, one of whom wanted to join Islamic State militants in Syria, under an internal security law that allows for detention without trial for two years, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Wednesday. Authorities in prosperous, multi-ethnic Singapore broke up plots for militant attacks more than a decade ago, after the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States. Recently, concern has been growing in countries around the world about individuals joining the cause of the Islamic State (IS). |
| Australian police find suspicious substances at Indonesian consulates | | | Australian police have been called to three Indonesian consulates following the discovery of suspicious substances. Police were called to consulates in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, spokesmen told Reuters. |
| Over 2,500 migrants still adrift, U.N. says ahead of SE Asia meeting | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 2,500 migrants could still be stranded on boats in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, according to estimates by the United Nations, as Thailand prepares to host a regional meeting it said was focused on "immediate action" to tackle the crisis. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and migrants from Bangladesh have tried to land in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia since a Thai crackdown on people smugglers in early May led to trafficker crews abandoning them at sea. Regional governments have struggled to respond, although images of desperate people crammed aboard overloaded boats with little food or water prompted Indonesia and Malaysia to soften their initial reluctance to allow the migrants to come ashore.
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| Thailand revokes passports of ousted former PM Thaksin | | | Thailand has revoked two passports belonging to ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after he gave an interview that posed a risk to national security and the country's reputation, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Thaksin, who lives abroad to avoid a jail sentence handed down for graft in 2008, was ousted in a 2006 coup but remains a major influence over Thai politics. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement an interview Thaksin recently gave was being investigated. |
| Prince Ali says FIFA arrests a 'sad day' for football | |  Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, the man challenging Sepp Blatter for the most powerful job in world soccer, said he was saddened by the latest corruption scandal involving the sport's governing body FIFA. Prince Ali issued a brief statement on Wednesday following the news that six high-ranking soccer officials, including two FIFA vice-presidents, had been arrested by Swiss police and detained pending extradition to the United States. "Today is a sad day for football," Prince Ali said.
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| FIFA arrests not linked to Russia's World Cup bid - TASS cites Russian minister | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Wednesday that the arrests of officials from soccer's world governing body FIFA were not linked to Russia's successful bid for the 2018 World Cup, TASS news agency reported. Six officials, including some high-ranking members of FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police in Zurich early on Wednesday and detained pending extradition to the United States. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; editing by John Stonestreet) |
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