CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION
Police swoop on former Fifa man in 2006 probe
Lausanne — A Swiss corruption probe into the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany was broadened on Wednesday to include former Fifa general secretary Urs Linsi after police raided homes. Switzerland’s attorney-general’s office opened an investigation in 2015 into fraud and money laundering allegations against four members of the 2006 World Cup organising committee: Germans Franz Beckenbauer, Hans-Rudolf Schmidt, Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach. But on Wednesday the top Swiss prosecution authority said it was now also investigating Linsi, who served as Fifa’s general secretary from June 1999 to June 2007. In a statement sent to AFP, the attorney-general’s office said that on November 23 "it conducted house searches with the support of the Federal Office of Police at various locations in the German-speaking part of Switzerland." All the searches related to Linsi, it said. The case first came to light in October 2015 when German news magazine Der Spiegel accused Germany of u...
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