FIFA: the indictment document from the federal court in Brooklyn (New York, United States)

The federal court in Brooklyn (New York, USA) has published the indictment, dated 20/05/2015, which accuses "14 people of racketeering, financial fraud and money laundering and other offenses in executive business from the last 24 years whose goal was to get rich through corruption in international football," on 27/05/2015.

Eugenio Figueredo (Uruguay) and Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands), two of the eight vice-presidents of FIFA, and five other leaders of international football were arrested in Zurich (SUI) on 27/05/2015, following extradition requests made by United States, on the eve of the opening of the FIFA Congress (28 and 29/05/2015), in which the president of the international federation for the 2015-2019 period will be elected.

"Over a period of approximately 25 years, the defendants and their co-conspirators rose to positions of power and influence in the world of organized soccer. During that same period, sometimes with the assistance of the defendants and their co-conspirators, a network of marketing companies developed to capitalize on the expanding media market for the…