FIFA's top officials Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner awarded themselves pay raises and World Cup bonuses totaling $80 million over their last five years in office.
Some of the payments appear to break Swiss law, and evidence will be given to U.S. and Swiss prosecutors who are investigating corruption implicating the world soccer body, lawyers for FIFA said Friday.
"The evidence appears to reveal a coordinated effort by three former top officials of FIFA to enrich themselves through annual salary increases, World Cup bonuses and other incentives totaling more than 79 million Swiss francs — in just the last five years," said Bill Burck of Quinn Emanuel, the U.