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US to disburse $92m to FIFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF in wake of corruption probe

Juan Ángel Napout of Paraguay, one of three defendants in the FIFA scandal on trial in Brooklyn, arrives at the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn on Nov 15, 2017.

NEW YORK: FIFA and other entities injured in the global football corruption scheme that exploded in 2015 are set to receive another $92 million in compensation, the US Department of Justice said Thursday.

US officials had said last year that FIFA, world football’s governing body, would receive $201 million confiscated from corrupt administrators.

Last August saw $32.3 million remitted, and on Thursday the DOJ announced “a further distribution of approximately $92 million in compensation for losses suffered by FIFA, the world organizing body of soccer; CONCACAF, the…

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