Police raid Uefa offices in 'Panama Papers' probe

By Euronews

Published on 06/04/2016 - 21:16

Swiss police have raided the offices of European football's governing body Uefa.

Swiss police have raided the offices of European football’s governing body Uefa.

BREAKING: After yesterday's Cross Trading/Teleamazonas story, UEFA</a> have today been raided by Swiss Police. <a href="https://t.co/G7KzqUKq1n">pic.twitter.com/G7KzqUKq1n</a></p>— Messi Minutes (MessiMinutes) April 6, 2016

The move comes in the wake of the ‘Panama Papers’ leak.

The documents mention current Fifa president Gianni Infantino.

Gianni Infantino's statement in full following police raid on Uefa offices https://t.co/D7Js3VGr6R pic.twitter.com/hcc2Dp2YuW
— Indy Football (@IndyFootball) April 6, 2016

While working for Uefa as director of legal services Infantino co-signed a TV rights deal with an Argentine company called Cross Trading, which then sold them on at a huge profit to Equadorian TV broadcaster Teleamazons.

Cross trading is owned by Hugo Jinkis and his son Mariano, both under house arrest in Argentina and both indicted by the US as part of an alleged multi-million dollar fraud.

Hugo y Mariano Jinkis son excarcelados en caso FIFA: http://t.co/PC0a3Xo4Du pic.twitter.com/0HjVbvR4qJ
— TelevisaPuntoCom (@TelevisaDotCom) August 29, 2015

There is no evidence to suggest Uefa, Infantino and Teleamazons did anything wrong.

Here's the truth about Infantino https://t.co/2NYbsDtNqc
— Andrew Jennings (@AAndrewJennings) April 6, 2016

Awkward. Just last week Peñarol president Juan Pedro Damiani was Infantino's best mate..and now? #panamapapers pic.twitter.com/myXxAfXe7M
— Martin da Cruz (@martindacruz_) April 4, 2016

In a further blow Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani resigned as a FIFA ethics judge after the Panama Papers linked his legal firm to several offshore companies connected to Eugenio Figueredo, a former Fifa vice-president arrested last May.