--- title: FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges description: Swiss officials made the arrests just days ahead of 65th congress of soccer's global governing body in Zurich canonical: https://time.com/3897468/fifa-officials-arrested-corruption-soccer-football/ author: David Stout article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-27T05:53:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-15T00:58:31.000Z article:section: Sports og:title: Authorities Arrest Top FIFA Officials on Graft Charges og:description: The suspects are likely to be extradited to the U.S. og:url: https://time.com/3897468/fifa-officials-arrested-corruption-soccer-football/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79ea0f4d08e799f4/698851c106f2c145e933a5ad/474828926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FBL-FIFA-CORRUPTION-US-SWITZERLAND og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Authorities Arrest Top FIFA Officials on Graft Charges twitter:description: The suspects are likely to be extradited to the U.S. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79ea0f4d08e799f4/698851c106f2c145e933a5ad/474828926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Swiss Authorities to Investigate FIFA Over 2018 and 2022 World Cup Bids > Sponsored content. 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The arrests [come](http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/news/y=2015/m=5/news=executive-committee-meets-ahead-of-65th-fifa-congress-2608442.html) just days ahead of the 65th congress of the sport’s global governing body FIFA, which is scheduled to commence in the Swiss city on Thursday. Federal prosecutors in Switzerland have opened criminal proceedings related to the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, and said they have seized “electronic data and documents” at the FIFA headquarters as part of the investigation. Police officials said 10 executive committee members who took part in the 2010 votes will be questioned. The U.S. Department of Justice has also unveiled an [indictment](http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-fifa-officials-and-five-corporate-executives-indicted-racketeering-conspiracy-and) against nine FIFA officials, including vice presidents Jeffrey Webb and Eugene Figueredo, and five corporate executives for racketeering conspiracy and corruption. The soccer organization has been long bedeviled by rumors of graft, especially relating to World Cup bids and broadcast rights.“We’re struck by just how long this went on for and how it touched nearly every part of what FIFA did,” an unidentified law-enforcement official told the newspaper. “It just seemed to permeate every element of the federation and was just their way of doing business. It seems like this corruption was institutionalized.” \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3897468/fifa-officials-arrested-corruption-soccer-football/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3897468/fifa-officials-arrested-corruption-soccer-football/"},"headline":"Swiss Authorities to Investigate FIFA Over 2018 and 2022 World Cup Bids","datePublished":"2015-05-27T05:53:07.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T00:58:31.000Z","description":"The suspects are likely to be extradited to the U.S.","url":"https://time.com/3897468/fifa-officials-arrested-corruption-soccer-football/","keywords":["Soccer","Crime","Football","corruption","Switzerland","justice","FIFA"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79ea0f4d08e799f4/698851c106f2c145e933a5ad/474828926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Stout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-stout/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79ea0f4d08e799f4/698851c106f2c145e933a5ad/474828926.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FBL-FIFA-CORRUPTION-US-SWITZERLAND","caption":"FBL-FIFA-CORRUPTION-US-SWITZERLAND","creditText":"Fabrice Coffrini—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/soccer/","name":"Soccer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3897468/fifa-officials-arrested-corruption-soccer-football/","name":"Swiss Authorities to Investigate FIFA Over 2018 and 2022 World Cup Bids"}}]}] ```