FIFA raid indicts 16 more men
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Five current and former members of FIFA’s ruling executive committee were among 16 additional men charged with corruption in an indictment unsealed Thursday as part of U.S. prosecutors’ widening investigation into soccer corruption. The 92-count indictment takes down an entire generation of soccer leaders in South America, a bedrock of FIFA and World Cup history. Led away by Swiss federal police in a pre-dawn raid at a Zurich hotel were Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, president of the South American confederation (CONMEBOL), and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, head of the North and Central American and Caribbean governing body (CONCACAF). ......