Six football officials have been arrested over
corruption charges at governing body Fifa and
face extradition to the US, officials say.
Separately, Swiss prosecutors have launched a
criminal case into the 2018 and 2022 football
World Cup bids.
The suspects, who include a Fifa vice-president,
allegedly accepted bribes worth $150m (£65m;
€92m) over 20 years.
Fifa members are due to vote Friday in a
presidential election. Incumbent Sepp Blatter is
seeking a fifth term.
However, Mr Blatter is not understood to be one
of those arrested.
Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan - Mr Blatter's
rival for the Fifa presidency - described the
development as "a sad day for football", but
withheld from commenting further.
Fifa's Zurich headquarters has also been raided,
with documents seized, Swiss prosecutors say.
'Seeking clarification'
Those arrested include:
Jeffrey Webb - head of the confederation for
North and Central America and the
Caribbean, Concacaf
Jack Warner, former Fifa vice-president
Costa Rica's national football chief Eduardo
Li, who was due to join Fifa's executive
committee on Friday
Uruguay's Eugenio Figueredo, president of
South American football governing body
Conmebol
Brazil's Jose Maria Marin, a member of Fifa's
club committee. Police were seen carrying his
suitcase and some of his possessions in
plastic bags
Several officials have already pleaded guilty, the
US Department of Justice says. These include
Charles Blazer, the former head of Concacaf, who
was previously on the Fifa executive committee.
Fifa was seeking to clarify the situation, a
spokesman said.

Many have wondered how Sepp Blatter can have
been in charge of Fifa for so long, amid so many
reports of corruption, and yet remain, apparently,
untouched.
One Swiss newspaper jokingly called him "the
dark prince of football, the godfather, Don
Blatterone' - but no inquiry has ever revealed
proof of his involvement in bribery.
"He's a survivor," says one member of parliament,
Roland Buechel. "Nothing ever sticks to him;
there is always someone between him and the
bribes."
Some old friends describe Mr Blatter as down to
earth and open. Others who have worked with
him say he is a man who resents opposition,
pointing to the swift departure of Fifa colleagues
who dared to question him.
What emerges, finally, is a man who both critics
and supporters say cannot imagine his life
without Fifa, a man whose tenure as president
has outlasted three marriages.
But as scandal follows scandal, Mr Blatter's
determination not to leave his post willingly could
see him bundled unceremoniously out the back
door.
The raid took place at a five star hotel in
Zurich early on Wednesday
The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said in
a statement on Wednesday that US authorities
suspected the officials of receiving $150m
(£97m) worth of bribes since the early 1990s for
football tournaments in Latin America.
The crimes were agreed to and prepared in the
US via US bank accounts, it adds.
Swiss authorities can immediately approve the
extradition, the statement continues.
In a separate move, prosecutors opened criminal
proceedings "against persons unknown on
suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of
money laundering in connection with the
allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football World
Cups," said a statement from the Swiss attorney-
general.
Earlier this month, Mr Blatter said he was aware
some of his former colleagues were under
investigation but denied that it involved him.
He was responding to an ESPN documentary that
claimed the Fifa president had been avoiding
travel to the US for almost four years due to the
investigation by the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI).

source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-3289504

Make them arrest all of them... with some referee join.... Them go fix match finish dey make boiz dey loose