In the Fifa corruption scandal, the first criminal case is completed. A former employee of a Swiss Bank, is convicted of, among other things, for forgery. 24 further criminal proceedings are still ongoing.
The Swiss office of the attorney General (OAG) has completed their investigation into the scandal around the football world Association FIFA, the first criminal proceedings. A former employee of a Swiss Bank, was convicted of forgery and breach of the reporting obligation. The BA said that it, among other things, fraud in the case of media marketing rights, as well as the payment of bribes around the exploitation of South America-the Association organized the Copa America was in the years 2015, 2019 and 2023. Explicitly, the determination referred to operations in South America. According to the BA, the employees have received “criminal received payments in the amount of 650,000 dollars.”
Criminal System of money laundering
Even if the Swiss Federal government called the bar with no name, you have to know that on Thursday, the former Swiss Bank Manager Jorge Arzuaga before a court in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to a System of black accounts active fraud and bribery may have been involved. Arzuaga had worked in Zurich until the year 2015 for the two banking houses. He had to be in a criminal System of money laundering involved. Between 2010 and 2015, he had bribe money Transfers in the amount of 25 million US dollars arranged, said Arzuaga. So bribes were about black accounts to influential football officials flowed, the lucrative marketing rights controlled.
Analysis of 19 terabytes of seized documents
The first conviction could only be the beginning, given that the office of the attorney General in its investigation that is currently around 25 criminal cases, approximately 19 terabytes of data are analyzed to seized documents. The authority announced on Friday. In September 2015, the authority had already opened a criminal case against the former President of FIFA Joseph Blatter on suspicion of aggravated breach of trust. Investigations were also conducted against Franz Beckenbauer, the former DFB President Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach, the former DFB General Secretary Horst R. Schmidt and Fedor Radmann. The first conviction was by criminal command “in the framework of a between Switzerland and the United States of temporally coordinated procedures financial statements”, as the BA said.
jhr/jw (sid, dpa)