Alfredo Hawit, Juan Angel Napout Suspended by FIFA After Corruption Arrests
FIFA suspended vice-presidents Alfredo Hawit and Juan Angel Napout from "all football-related activity" for 90 days on Friday following the pair's arrest in Switzerland on Thursday.
Per BBC Sport, Hawit and Napout were apprehended in a "dawn raid" on suspicion of corruption—that is, "accepting millions of dollars" of bribe money—and along with 14 other officials were charged on Thursday by the American authorities investigating the allegations surrounding football's governing body.
As noted in the aforementioned report, U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch said:
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"The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous. The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable.
And the message from this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade our investigation: you will not wait us out; you will not escape our focus.
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Napout is also president of South American football federation CONMEBOL, while Hawit has been the interim president of CONCACAF—the federation for North, Central American and Caribbean football—since 2011.
FIFA's executive committee had been in Zurich to vote on reforms, according to the BBC.
The organisation is seeking to clean up its image after years of allegations culminated in a series of high-profile arrests in May this year, while president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini were suspended by FIFA's ethics committee in October.
