Football Leaks: "The aim, an attempt to undermine the new leadership, including G. Infantino" (FIFA)

"It seems obvious from the 'reporting' carried out in some media outlets that there is only one particular aim : an attempt to undermine the new leadership of FIFA and, in particular, the president, Gianni Infantino, and the secretary general, Fatma Samoura," stated FIFA on 02/11/2018.

80 journalists from 15 European media outlets analyzed "over eight months, more than 70 million documents obtained by the German magazine 'Der Spiegel', or 3.4 terabytes of data," according to the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), responsible for this "Football Leaks" report.

"FIFA President Gianni Infantino secretly worked to weaken the global football organization's code of ethics in several areas. The documents reveal the changes were initiated not only by the relevant Ethics Committee and functionaries from the body's continental confederations, as FIFA has claimed, but also by FIFA President Infantino himself," reported the German outlet Der Spiegel on 02/11/2018.

"Four weeks ago, a group of journalists sent several hundred questions to FIFA, based on private and internal e-mails and…