FIFA presidential polls will take place on Friday (May 29) as per schedule despite the arrest of seven officials on charges that they received millions of US dollars in bribes.
Nine current or former FIFA officials, including current vice president Webb and former vice-president Jack Warner, have been charged with corruption. Four individual and two corporate defendants, including former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer and Warner's sons Daryan and Daryll, plead guilty. The corruption was over media and marketing rights to matches and tournaments
Those arrested in a dawn raid at the prestigious Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich were Webb, Eduardo Li, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Eugenio Figueredo, Rafael Esquivel and Jose Maria Marin.
Sepp Blatter faces Prince Ali bin al-Hussein in the election. Should Blatter win, it will be his fifth term as FIFA president, reports the BBC.
The BBC further said that the seven FIFA officials were arrested after the US Department of Justice issued a 47-count indictment charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies in a 24-year scheme.
