Sepp Blatter upon his arrival at the Attorney General's office in Bern, Switzerland, September 1, 2020. -

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In addition to the trial expected Monday in Switzerland in a TV rights case, Fifa is the subject of a multitude of procedures, from the award of the 2022 World Cup to the recent indictment of its boss Gianni Infantino.

  • Suspicions about the Qatari World Cup

The most embarrassing investigation for the body, by the shadow it casts over its queen competition, aims to award Qatar the organization of the 2022 World Cup. Documented by an internal Fifa investigation, suspicions of 'vote purchases during the vote on December 2, 2010 justified a complaint at the end of 2014 to the Swiss justice system, which has been investigating since May 2015 for “money laundering and unfair management”.

At the same time, French justice is investigating for "active and passive corruption" on a lunch held on November 23, 2010 between Nicolas Sarkozy, then head of state, two senior Qatari leaders and Michel Platini, at the time boss of UEFA.

If Qatar is the focus of attention, the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa are also marred by suspicions of corruption.

Finally, Switzerland had to close in April a lawsuit on the attribution of the World Cup 2006 to Germany, because of the prescription.

Only one tax aspect remains which must be judged in Frankfurt.

  • Bribes and TV rights

Fifa's financial manna, television rights are also its main source of litigation: alongside the sanctions of its internal justice system, the legal proceedings target both the rights of the World Cups and those of regional tournaments.

Thus the “Fifagate”, which begins with the spectacular arrest on May 27, 2015 of seven world football leaders in Zurich, concerns above all the “racketeering” carried out by South American football officials in exchange for the rights to continental competitions.

Fifa: 4 years ... after the anti-corruption raid of 05/27/2015, the ethics committee is suspending the Brazilian Jose Maria Marin for life.

- rémi dupré (@remidupre) April 15, 2019

Investigated in the United States, the case has already resulted in the conviction of nine years in prison for Paraguayan Juan Manuel Napout and four years in prison for Brazilian José Maria Marin.

Jeffrey Webb, another leader from the Cayman Islands, has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $ 6.7 million, but is still awaiting his criminal sentence.

As for the TV rights of the Worlds, reporting directly to Fifa, the former secretary general Jérôme Valcke will be tried on Monday in Switzerland alongside the boss of beIN Media and PSG, Qatari Nasser Al-Khelaïfi.

Both face five years in prison.

  • Blatter-Platini

The fall of the two former leaders, banished from world football at the end of 2015, hides a double dispute: first the main case investigated for "unfair management", a payment of 2 million Swiss francs from Fifa to Michel Platini in 2011, validated by then president Sepp Blatter without a written contract.

But the two men hammer home that it is a balance of salary for an advisory job dating back to 1999-2002, and Michel Platini sees in this case a "plot" intended to oust him from the presidency of Fifa which seemed to offer itself to him.

He therefore counter-attacked at the end of 2018 with a complaint for “slanderous denunciation” and “criminal association”.

  • And now, Infantino

Elected in 2016 with the promise to "restore the image of Fifa", the current boss Gianni Infantino has been targeted since July 30 by criminal proceedings for "incitement to abuse of authority", the "violation of official secrecy ”and“ obstruction of criminal proceedings ”.

Swiss justice accuses him of three secret meetings in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Lauber, then head of the Public Ministry of the Confederation (MPC), fueling suspicions of collusion between the prosecution and Fifa, civil party in most of the proceedings.

The case forced Michael Lauber to resign this summer, but FIFA internal justice cleared Gianni Infantino in mid-August, seeing no violation of the code of ethics.

The defense of Italo-Switzerland, for its part, hopes for a rapid summons and believes "that there is nothing wrong with meeting a prosecutor, even informally".

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