Agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service have executed search warrants in a raid at Concacaf headquarters in Miami Beach.
The raid early Wednesday morning on the organisation that regulates football in North and Central America and the Caribbean came just hours after Swiss authorities arrested seven Fifa officials in Zurich at the request of US authorities.
US Attorney General Loretta E Lynch said in a statement Wednesday that a US “indictment alleges corruption that is rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted both abroad and here in the United States”.
The agents in Miami carried cardboard boxes, which could be used to hold evidence gathered from the scene, into the building.
Neither the FBI nor the IRS would comment on the US investigation into corruption in football. No one answered the phone at Concacaf’s office in Miami Beach.
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