The prosecutor revealed new details about alleged bribes that must have been paid to members of Fifa's executive committee. Among other things, Russia is supposed to have paid Fifa's former vice-chairman Jack Warner about SEK 50 million for him to cast his vote on the country. Guatemala's former Federation President Rafael Salguero was offered ten million SEK to cast his vote at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
According to the news agency AP, it also appears in the prosecution that Brazilian Football Association's former chairman Ricardo Teixeira should have received bribes from Qatar. In total, 22 people must have received bribes to vote in Russia or Qatar.
"For several years, the defendants and their associates have destroyed the governance of international football with bribes and fraud that caused major injuries to football," said William F. Sweeney Jr., assistant director of the FBI's field office in New York.
"Major injuries to the football"In addition, former senior executives at the television company 21st Century Fox are charged with illegal payments to secure broadcast rights to both the 2018 World Cup and 2022.
The Fifa scandal started in May 2015 when the police in Zurich seized seven peaks. As a result, Fifa's former chairman Sepp Blatter and Uefa's counterpart Michel Platini were suspended for eight years.