Media: the US are investigating the activities of Sepp Blatter – BBC Russian

• June 2, 2015

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Sepp Blatter rejects any predlolozheniya about his involvement in the corruption scandal

US authorities conducted an investigation against the outgoing president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, US media reported.

The investigation is conducted within the framework of a corruption scandal that erupted last week.

The New York Times and broadcaster ABC News, citing unnamed sources close to the investigation reported that Sepp Blatter is in the center of the investigation, but did not report any details.

The TV channel ABC News reported that Blatter is under investigation by the FBI and prosecutors in the framework of the case in which the last week were arrested seven members of the leadership of FIFA.

These messages came a few hours after Sepp Blatter announced his intention to resign from the presidency of FIFA.

An FBI spokesman said that his Office does not intend to comment on the statements of the press and to report anything other than what has already been said the attorney general and the director of the FBI, when they reported that the activities of FIFA under investigation in connection with allegations of corruption.

” rampant corruption “

According to the correspondent BBC BBC in New York Nick Bryant, several US officials told the New York Times, which hopes to cooperate with the investigation of some officials of FIFA indicted of corruption, extortion and money laundering.

This cooperation, according to them, will help to open a case against Sepp Blatter.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the arrests in Switzerland – not the end but only the beginning investigation

The US Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced last week about the investigation, she said, “rampant, systematic and deeply rooted” corruption in FIFA, did not name the name of Sepp Blatter .

However, she stressed that the arrest – this is not the end of the investigation, but only a start.

The US Justice Department earlier reported that under investigation are 14 high-ranking officials of FIFA, which are imputed bribes and compensation totaling more than $ 150 million.

Among the seven arrested in Switzerland, FIFA officials – two vice-presidents of the organization. All of them are awaiting extradition to the United States.