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Ben Affleck to Produce FIFA Scandal Film for Warner Bros.

 

Ben Affleck is teaming up with Warrior director Gavin O’Connor to bring the story of the FIFA corruption scandal to cinemas, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

 

Affleck will produce a film that focuses on Chuck Blazer, the American former member of the football governing body’s executive committee, who provided the FBI with the information it needed to arrest FIFA officials on corruption charges, according to reports. Fourteen current and former FIFA executives were arrested at FIFAs annual meeting in Zurich last month.

 

The film, which is as yet untitled, will be scripted by O’Connor and his regular collaborator Anthony Tambakis, based on reporting by Buzzfeed journalist Ken Bensinger.

 

Blazer, 70, pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including bribery, money laundering and tax evasion, in 2013. He co-operated with the FBI from 2011 and was reported as having recorded FIFA colleagues using a bug hidden in a key fob during meetings at the London 2012 Olympics.

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Swiss authorities now investigating blatter

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34363289

 

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of football's world governing body Fifa.

The attorney general's office said he was being investigated "on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as - alternatively - on suspicion of misappropriation".

Mr Blatter was being questioned, and his office was searched, it added.

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Swiss authorities now investigating blatter...

 

I was just posting this when your reply came in:

 

Link: Criminal proceedings against the President of FIFA

 

Bern, 25.09.2015 - The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against the President of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as – alternatively – on suspicion of misappropriation.

 

Swiss criminal proceedings against the President of FIFA, Mr. Joseph Blatter, have been opened on 24 September 2015 on suspicion of criminal mismanagement (Article 158 Swiss Criminal Code / SCC) and – alternatively – misappropriation (Article 138 Swiss Criminal Code / SCC)...

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