Fifa crisis: US charges 16 more officials after earlier Zurich arrests

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Fifa crisis: US charges 16 more officials after earlier Zurich arrests
3 December 2015
Last updated at 23:34 GMT

Sixteen more officials have been charged by US authorities investigating corruption at Fifa.

The new indictment, released by the Department of Justice in Washington, came hours after the arrest of two Fifa vice-presidents in Zurich on Thursday.

Former Brazil football federation chief Ricardo Teixeira was among those accused of being "involved in criminal schemes involving well over $200m (£132m) in bribes and kickbacks".
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Earlier, Concacaf president Alfredo Hawit and Conmebol president Juan Angel Napout were held in a dawn raid at a Swiss hotel, arrested on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes, at the request of the US authorities. Hawit, 64, is interim president for North, Central America and Caribbean football, while Napout, 57, oversees football in the South American confederation.
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Fifa's executive committee has been meeting in the city, voting on reforms.

Current Brazil football president Marco Polo del Nero is also on the new "superseding" 92-count indictment, which alleges "racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies" with "sustained abuse of [the defendants'] positions for financial gain".

The current and former senior football executives charged are:
• Alfredo Hawit - Fifa vice-president and Concacaf president
• Ariel Alvarado - Fifa disciplinary committee member and former Panamanian football chief
• Rafael Callejas - former president of Honduras - and its football association
• Brayan Jimenez - Guatemala FA chief and member of the Fifa committee for fair play and social responsibility.
• Rafael Salguero - Former Fifa executive committee member and Guatemala football chief
• Hector Trujillo - general secretary of Guatemala FA
• Reynaldo Vasquez - former El Salvador FA president
• Juan Angel Napout - Fifa vice-president and Conmebol president
• Manuel Burga - Fifa development committee member and former Peru FA president
• Carlos Chavez - Conmebol treasurer
• Luis Chiriboga - Ecuador football president
• Marco Polo del Nero - Brazil football president
• Eduardo Deluca - former Conmebol general secretary
• Jose Luis Meiszner - Conmebol general secretary
• Romer Osuna - Bolivian Fifa audit and compliance committee member
• Ricardo Teixeira - former Brazil FA chief
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The new 236-page indictment now alleges a total of 27 defendants engaged in a number of schemes involving selling lucrative media and marketing rights to international soccer tournaments and matches, among other valuable rights and properties.

The total number of individuals and entities - such as sports marketing companies - charged to date is now 41. Of those, 12 individuals and two sports marketing companies have already been convicted as a result of the ongoing investigation.
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