Fifa scandal hits new low amid claims Haiti funds embezzled

The full extent of Fifa’s corruption scandal was laid bare by fresh indictments on Thursday after US justice authorities revealed huge sums destined for disaster relief and development projects were embezzled by senior officials.

The new indictments followed the dawn arrests of two Fifa vice-presidents, Alfredo Hawit of Honduras and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, in Zurich and fresh corruption charges against a total of 16 officials for sums totalling $200 million (€182m) mostly relating to TV and marketing deals in north, south and central America and the Caribbean.

US attorney general Loretta Lynch announced the new indictments including those against three former executive committee members — Ricardo Teixeira, the disgraced Brazilian who quit Fifa’s executive committee in 2012 after it was revealed he had received millions of dollars in bribes from Fifa’s former marketing company ISL, his successor Marco Polo Del Nero, and Guatemala’s Rafael Salguero. It brings to 10 the number of current or former ExCo members facing charges.