2020/12/22 17:19 GENEVA (AP) FIFA has filed a criminal complaint against former president Sepp Blatter over the finances of its loss-making soccer museum in Zurich. FIFA 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 intended to open around May 2015, when Blatter won a fifth presidential election, but was delayed until after he left office under pressure from American and Swiss investigations of international soccer officials.
FIFA lodges criminal mismanagement complaint against former President Blatter Tuesday, 22 December 2020
FIFA has issued a complaint against its former President Sepp Blatter over the suspected criminal mismanagement of the organisation s football museum in Zurich.
The worldwide governing body revealed it had lodged the complaint with a prosecutor from the Swiss city in relation to the agreements that were signed to build the FIFA World Football Museum and the direct involvement of Blatter and other unnamed suspects.
Plans for a museum were tabled by the FIFA Executive Committee in 2012 before work on the site began in 2014.
According to FIFA, the previous administration - led by Blatter - spent CHF140 million (£117.8 million/$158.1 million/€129.2 million) on the renovation with the entire project costing CHF 500 million (£421.2 million/$564.8 million/€461.4 million).
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FILE - This Jan. 5, 2016 file photo shows the building of the FIFA Museum, in Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA said on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 that it has filed a criminal complaint against former president Blatter over the finances of its loss-making soccer museum in Zurich. (Patrick B. Kraemer/Keystone via AP, file) December 22, 2020 - 5:21 AM
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 âcriminal mismanagement by FIFAâs former management and companies appointed by themâ to work on the museum long seen as a pet project of Blatterâs in a renovated and rented city centre building.
FIFA Files Criminal Complaint Against Former President Sepp Blatter Over Museum
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FILE - A general view shows the future FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 8, 2016.
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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.
FIFA files criminal complaint against Blatter over museum
FIFA has filed a criminal complaint against former president Sepp Blatter over the finances of its loss-making soccer museum in Zurich.
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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 centre building.