FIFA loses multi-million lawsuit against Blatter and Kattner

Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Markus Kattner do not have to pay back their own bonuses or the bonus totalling CHF23 million ($28.7 million) paid to another FIFA official to FIFA. This was decided by the Zurich industrial tribunal. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The bonuses were paid out in the years 2010 to 2013 and were intended to honour the financial success of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the District Court of Zurich announced on Friday. The individual beneficiaries were at least involved in the decisions on the bonuses of the others. FIFA, world football's Zurich-based governing body, sued the former officials for repayment because they had decided on the bonus payments in collusion with conflicts of interest. + Swiss prosecutor’s meagre record in FIFA corruption scandal The court rejected the claim for damages in full due to the bonus payments made, it wrote. According to the court, the defendants were entitled to assume "in ...