Former FIFA officials 'enriched themselves' by €70m, says lawyer

"The evidence appears to reveal a co-ordinated effort by three former top officials of FIFA to enrich themselves."

Former FIFA officials 'enriched themselves' by €70m, says lawyer

Three former FIFA officials, including ex-president Sepp Blatter, conducted a "co-ordinated effort to enrich themselves" which cost the organisation more than €70million (£55million) in the last five years.

Football's world governing body announced that Blatter, former secretary general Jerome Valcke and former deputy secretary general Markus Kattner, who also served as FIFA's chief financial officer, received the compensation awards from 2011 to 2015.

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