Swiss to probe Fifa contract signed by Blatter: officials

Zurich

THE Swiss Attorney-General's Office will investigate a contract for media rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, two Swiss law enforcement officials said over the weekend. The inquiry follows a television news report asserting that Fifa sold the rights for rates far below market to a Caribbean soccer organisation, whose leader then resold them for much more.

The interest by Swiss prosecutors, who are already investigating how Fifa awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar, expands the scrutiny facing Fifa and its president, Sepp Blatter, along with Jack Warner, former head of the Caribbean soccer federation.