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Swiss Chase 53 Fraud Cases Tied to FIFA

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Investigating 105 other accounts.

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Swiss authorities are investigating 53 potential cases of money laundering related to the FIFA probe, officials announced Wednesday. They’re also looking at an additional 105 bank accounts for suspicious activity as the investigation into the world soccer body expands. “I am well aware of the enormous public interest in our investigation. Equally enormous is the public interest in an independent criminal procedure,” the country’s attorney general said. “Our investigation is of great complexity and quite substantial. To give you an example: The [Swiss attorney general’s office] has seized around nine terabytes of data.”

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