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Historical events leading to the arrests[edit]
In 2001, FIFA affiliate
Following investigations Swiss magistrate Thomas Hildbrand seized documents from FIFA offices in 2005
On 29 November 2010 the BBC broadcast
In 2011, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele began providing information and sources to the FBI, which helped advance the investigation.[66]
In May 2011 a whistleblower, later revealed to be Phaedra Almajid who was a member of the Qatari bid team for the 2022 World Cup, claimed that money was paid to FIFA's executive committee in order to buy votes.[67] However, she retracted these claims in July 2011,[68] later claiming that she had been coerced into making these retractions.[26]
On May 2013, former CONCACAF executive Chuck Blazer was arrested (and later indicted) on bribery charges. Jack Warner and Blazer were suspended from FIFA at around the same time.[69] Then on 17 October 2014 FIFA announced that the Garcia Report into alleged bribery during the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids could not be released in full for legal reasons. Garcia later claimed that a summary of the report that was released misrepresents his findings.[70]
Arrests[edit]
On the morning of 27 May 2015, seven FIFA officials were arrested just before the start of the
May 2015[edit]
On 27 May 2015, during the FIFA annual meeting at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, authorities charged 14 officials, including nine current or former FIFA executives, including FIFA vice-president Jeffrey Webb. All faced extradition to the United States. On the same day, the Swiss attorney general's office said that other FIFA executives were being questioned on suspicion of "criminal mismanagement" and money laundering.[80]
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