FIFA denied the Americans the interrogation of Blatter

FIFA rejected a request by the US Senate to interview the president of the organization, Joseph Blatter, in a corruption scandal case, spokesman for Senator Jerry Moran Garrett Turner said.

Blatter, who heads FIFA since 1998 of the year, was re-elected on May 5 for a fifth term amid a corruption scandal, as a result of which a number of high-ranking officials of the organization were arrested. Already 29 June 2-year-old Swiss announced his resignation and asked the FIFA executive committee to convene an extraordinary congress to select a successor as head of the organization.

“Senator Moran's administration approached FIFA to explore the possibility of Mr Blatter giving evidence, but the organization refused,” Turner was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Earlier, Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber said that in the context of an investigation into corruption at FIFA, interrogation of Blatter and Secretary General Jerome Valcke are not ruled out.

In late May, it became known that several high-ranking FIFA officials were arrested in Zurich on suspicion of corruption, including Jeffrey Webb, Eugenio Figueredo, Eduardo Lee, Julio Roca, Costas Tuckas, Rafael Esquivel, Jose Maria Marin. Another number of officials were charged. Among them are the former president of CONCACAF, in the recent past, FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner and Nicholas Leos.