FIFA
Reports by investigative journalists have linked FIFA leadership with corruption, bribery, and vote-rigging related to the election of FIFA president Sepp Blatter and the organization's decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. These allegations led to the indictments of nine high-ranking FIFA officials and five corporate executives by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges including racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. On 27 May 2015, several of these officials were arrested by Swiss authorities, who were launching a simultaneous but separate criminal investigation into how the organization awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Those among these officials who were also indicted in the U.S. are expected to be extradited to face charges there as well. Many officials were suspended by FIFA's ethics committee including Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. In early 2017, reports became public about FIFA president Gianni Infantino attempting to prevent the re-elections of both chairmen of the ethics committee, Cornel Borbély and Hans-Joachim Eckert, during the FIFA congress in May 2017. On 9 May 2017, following Infantino's proposal, FIFA Council decided not to renew the mandates of Borbély and Eckert. Together with the chairmen, 11 of 13 committee members were removed.
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FIFA
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FIFA president
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Sepp Blatter
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award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups
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2018
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2022-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2022
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Russia
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Qatar
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indictments of nine high-ranking FIFA officials and five corporate executives
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FIFA
ORG
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U.S. Department of Justice
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racketeering
Concept
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wire fraud
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money laundering
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2015-05-27T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
27 May 2015
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2018-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2018
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2022-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2022
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FIFA
ORG
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ethics committee
ORG
Q483437
Sepp Blatter
PER
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Michel Platini
PER
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2017
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FIFA
ORG
Q124138
Gianni Infantino
PER
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Cornel Borbély
PER
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Hans-Joachim Eckert
PER
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FIFA
ORG
2017-05-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
May 2017
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2017-05-09T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
9 May 2017
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Q1388490
FIFA Council
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2020-11-13T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
11 of 13
DATE
Q19984977
indictments of nine high-ranking FIFA officials and five corporate executives
Concept
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FIFA
ORG