You wouldn't believe it......

[TightEnd]

summary of headlines

Reuters: Swiss federal office of justice says criminal proceedings opened in connection with allocation of 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Update - Swiss Federal Office of Justice says it has seized documents at #Fifa's headquarters after arresting a number of officials

Swiss prosecutors confirm that electronic data and documents have been seized in a raid on Fifa .

Swiss close co-operation with US authorities after years as safe-haven for FIFA & IOC is interesting.

[TightEnd]

Note to media representatives:

In connection with irregularities surrounding football tournaments, two separate proceedings must be distinguished:

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) is conducting a Swiss criminal investigation regarding the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. For inquiries regarding this Swiss criminal investigation, please contact the OAG.

In separate proceedings, and independently of the Swiss criminal investigation of the OAG, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York is conducting a criminal investigation into the allocation of media, marketing and sponsoring rights for football  tournaments carried out in the United States and Latin America. The Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) supports this criminal investigation as part of international legal assistance. Today, on Wednesday 27 May 2015, football officials and suspected bribers have been arrested in Zurich and placed in detention pending extradition as part of this investigation, and by order of the FOJ.
The requests for extradition and legal assistance shall be decided upon by the FOJ, and not by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-57391.html

[mulhuzz]

What you defo won't believe is that FIFA claimed to have initiated these proceedings.

[McGlashan]

We wouldn't believe it if they managed to find Sepp Blatter guilty of some wrong doing.

[TheDazzler]

Doesn't TFT have a bet on Blatter getting re elected?
I dunno if this current issue is going to cause a problem in that regard?

[TightEnd]

Doesn't TFT have a bet on Blatter getting re elected?
I dunno if this current issue is going to cause a problem in that regard?

it does. it was due to be a winner on friday

currently they are saying the vote then goes ahead as is (which is daft)

i would quite like to lose the bet!

[TightEnd]

Current odds to be elected FIFA president at William Hill UK:

Sepp Blatter 1/16

Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein 7/1

[TheDazzler]

Current odds to be elected FIFA president at William Hill UK:

Sepp Blatter 1/16

Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein 7/1

How much do we have on? Should we be laying it off on Betfair? Surely everything is up in the air. Anything can happen.

[TightEnd]

Current odds to be elected FIFA president at William Hill UK:

Sepp Blatter 1/16

Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein 7/1

How much do we have on? Should we be laying it off on Betfair? Surely everything is up in the air. Anything can happen.

£20

the vote is on friday. it goes ahead, doesn't it?

[Marky147]

They said the vote is going ahead, as planned.

Most bookies don't seem to think it's going to alter the outcome.

[TightEnd]

"FIFA is scheduled to hold an election this Friday, in which long time association President Sepp Blatter is all but guaranteed to win his fifth term in office. FIFA released a statement that Blatter has not be arrested, and is not involved in anyway in the alleged wrongdoings and that the election will proceed as scheduled."

mind you that press conference from Loretta Lynch was fantastic

finally, fifa is in big trouble

[TheDazzler]

£20, well fair enough, leave it. If it was anything sizeable I would lay it off.
Yes, of course Blatter is still short odds on and yes, the vote is still going ahead. But that might all be very different tomorrow.

[MANTIS01]

How on earth can you run an organisation and claim not to be responsible in any way for the conduct of that organisation?? If the election goes ahead and Blatter is re-elected it will be crazy random madness. Actually this is FIFA so undoubtedly this will happen.

[TightEnd]

BREAKING: UEFA calls for postponement of FIFA presidential election & may boycott congress.

[tikay]

What a great story this is. Or it would be, were it not so sad.

Meanwhile, the World Cup presumably goes ahead in Qatar?