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The complaint has been lodged with Zurich s cantonal prosecutor in relation to the Haus zur Enge project following an investigation by external experts.
FIFA s complaint was made against Blatter, who resigned as president in 2015 amid a corruption scandal, and other persons in relation to activities relating to the agreements that were signed in relation to the facility .
Football s governing body say the project for the museum in downtown Zurich is set to cost them half a billion Swiss Francs that could and should have been channeled into the development of global football .
A FIFA statement said: The complaint includes the entire project costs at CHF 500 million, and identifies that the previous FIFA administration poured CHF 140 million into renovating and refurbishing a building that the organisation doesn t own, while also locking itself into a long-term rental agreement on unfavourable terms when compared to standard market rates, which,
La FIFA dépose une plainte contre Blatter sur le musée du football
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La FIFA dépose une plainte contre Blatter
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FIFA says it has filed a criminal complaint against former President Sepp Blatter over “suspected criminal mismanagement” in connection with its loss-making football museum in Zurich.
In a statement on Tuesday, the football body said it “lodged a criminal complaint with Zurich’s cantonal prosecutor as evidence of suspected criminal mismanagement by FIFA’s former management and companies appointed by them in relation to the [museum] has surfaced”.
Blatter’s lawyer, Lorenz Erni, told the AFP news agency “the accusations are unfounded” and vehemently denied wrongdoing.
According to FIFA, the museum generated a bill of 500 million Swiss francs ($564m) that instead “could and should have been channelled into the development of global football”.
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GENEVA FIFA has filed a criminal complaint against former president Sepp Blatter over the finances of its loss-making soccer museum in Zurich.
Soccer’s governing body said on Tuesday it suspected “criminal mismanagement by FIFA’s former management and companies appointed by them” to work on the museum long seen as a pet project of Blatter’s in a renovated and rented city center building.
The FIFA World Football Museum opened in 2016 after $140 million of soccer money was spent refurbishing the 1970s office building to also include 34 rental apartments.
It was meant to open around May 2015, when Blatter won a fifth presidential election, but was delayed until after he left office amid pressure from American and Swiss investigations of international soccer officials.