US indicts 16 more in probe of world soccer corruption

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five current and former members of FIFA's ruling executive committee were among 16 additional men charged with corruption in an indictment unsealed today as part of U.S. prosecutors' widening investigation into soccer corruption.

The 92-count indictment takes down an entire generation of soccer leaders in South America, a bedrock of FIFA and World Cup history.

"The betrayal of trust set forth here is outrageous," U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. "The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable."

Led away by Swiss federal police in a pre-dawn raid at a Zurich hotel were Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, president of the South American confederation (CONMEBOL), and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, head of the North and Central American and Caribbean governing body (CONCACAF).

The arrests — at the same hotel where initial raids occurred in May — came just before FIFA's executive committee met to approve reform measures long resisted by soccer's top leaders but ones that gained traction in the aftermath of the scandal.

Rafael Callejas, Honduras' president from 1990-94, was indicted, as was Hector Trujillo, a judge on Guatemala's Constitutional Court.