BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Statement issued by Swiss authorities Wednesday in connection with their investigation into FIFA corruption:
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The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups. In the course of said proceedings, electronic data and documents were seized today at FIFA's head office in Zurich.
Today, on Wednesday 27 May 2015, the OAG has seized data and documents stored in IT systems at the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) as part of a so-called ''collection of evidence on cooperative basis.