Wednesday 30 December 2015 16:15, UK
Investigators looking into widespread corruption at FIFA have frozen more than £54m worth of bank accounts after fresh evidence from Swiss police was handed over to the FBI in connection with bribes and suspicious marketing TV deals.
The new evidence relates to around 13 accounts with 10 different banks, through which bribes to high-ranking FIFA officials are alleged to have been routed in connection with the granting of marketing rights to tournaments in South America and the United States.
The US authorities, who have charged 27 current and former football officials with money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud, have also requested to see 50 files which contain evidence about FIFA officials who were accused of taking bribes from FIFA's former marketing partner ISL.
In 2010, BBC's Panorama accused three FIFA officials - Issa Hayatou, Nicolas Leoz and Ricardo Texeira - of receiving bribes from ISL, which collapsed in 2001, between 1989 and 1999.
