FIFA: “This is a full and clear victory for me, for the new FIFA and for justice” (Giann Infantino)

"This is a full and clear victory for me, for the new FIFA and for justice. It is now clear that the accusations against me were mere attempts by poor, envious and corrupt people to attack my reputation. If these people have some dignity left, they should at least have the decency and apologise for their actions and the damage caused," said Gianni Infantino (ITA-SUI), president of FIFA, on 26/10/2023.

He is commenting on the decision by Hans Maurer and Ulrich Weder, Swiss Federal Prosecutors, to dismiss and definitively close the legal proceedings brought against him in the so-called "Michael Lauber case," which was named after the then Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation, who resigned on 24/07/2020.

At the center of this case, three informal meetings - without any minutes recorded - in the 2016-2017 period between Gianni Infantino and Michael Lauber, as well as - for two meetings at least - the first prosecutor of Haut-Valais Rinaldo Arnold, a childhood friend of Gianni Infantino. Michael Lauber had been in charge of procedures related to corruption scandals at FIFA since…