Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter attends an interview in Zurich, Switzerland April 21, 2017. — Reuters pic
This marks the latest in a string of allegations of improper Fifa-linked payments to Trinidad’s long-serving Fifa official Jack Warner, who has been banned from football for life and is battling extradition to the US from his native Trinidad. An OAG spokesperson meanwhile told AFP in an email that this was “not a new criminal proceeding against Joseph Blatter, it is in addition to the overall criminal proceedings against Joseph Blatter.”