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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:

The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous.