FIFA: the audit firm KPMG confirms "the end of the collaboration", FIFA "welcomes this change"

"In accordance with Swiss law, by a letter dated 09/06/2016, we informed the FIFA President about our decision to put an end to (our) cooperation and reasons leading KPMG to make this decision," stated the audit, tax, and consultation agency KPMG, on 13/06/2016.

The Swiss branch of KPMG confirmed "the end of the collaboration with immediate effect", without detailing the reasons for this in a statement to the Agence France Presse on 13/06/2016.

"FIFA acknowledges the decision of KPMG to step down as FIFA’s auditor after more than a decade of service. FIFA welcomes this change as it gives the organisation the opportunity to work with a new audit firm," said the international federation on 13/06/2016.

"We are continuing certain fiduciary duties for FIFA and we can not make more comments," said KPMG.