PARIS: The US Department of Justice has agreed to hand FIFA $201 million confiscated from corrupt football administrators, the governing body of world football announced on Tuesday.
Most of the cash comes from US legal actions in the wake of the “FIFAgate” scandal, which erupted in May 2015 with the dramatic arrest of seven world football executives in Zurich and led a few months later to the departure of Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s president since 1998.
“This money was seized from the bank accounts of former officials who were involved in, and then prosecuted for, years of corruption schemes in football,” said FIFA in a statement on its website.
It said it had set…
