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FIFA president Gianni Infantino was questioned in Zurich for an investigation into his alleged secret conferences with Switzerland’s former prosecution chief
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has been quizzed by two Swiss prosecutors appointed to take over an investigation into his alleged secret conferences with the nation’s former prosecution chief, one of many magistrates confirmed to AFP on Wednesday.
“I affirm to you {that a} confrontation listening to was held within the proceedings carried out by Dr (Ulrich) Weder and myself,” Hans Maurer wrote in an e mail to AFP.
“Nonetheless, I don’t touch upon the time, scope and function of this listening to.”
Earlier Wednesday, information retailers Le Monde and Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Infantino was questioned on Tuesday in Zurich, the place the headquarters of FIFA are primarily based.
The boss of world soccer has been dealing with proceedings since July 2020 over “incitement to abuse authority”, “violation of official secrecy” and “obstructing felony proceedings”.
Swiss justices accuse him of three secret conferences in 2016 and 2017 with former lawyer basic Michael Lauber.
Infantino, 52, has insisted that his conferences with Lauber have been merely routine.
Lauber ultimately resigned whereas FIFA’s inner justice system cleared Infantino.
Infantino will stand unopposed for a 3rd time period as FIFA later this yr.
He would be the solely candidate when the election takes place on the 73rd FIFA Congress in Kigali, Rwanda on March 16.
Infantino’s third time period follows within the line of earlier FIFA presidents — Joao Havelange was in cost from 1974 to 1998 and Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter held workplace from 1998 to 2015.
Infantino was elected in 2016 promising to “restore FIFA’s picture” after the federation was tormented by scandal within the last years of Blatter’s time in cost.
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