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Four months after stunning arrests and raids rocked Fifa, there could yet be four years until the final criminal trial is heard.
US attorney general Loretta Lynch warned on Monday that the number of people indicted in a wide-ranging racketeering case should rise from the current tally of 14.
Lynch held a joint news conference with her counterpart in Switzerland, Michael Lauber, to give an update on their separate investigations into alleged corruption in soccer.
Swiss professor of criminal law Mark Pieth, a former anti-corruption adviser to Fifa, predicted that all the legal activity in Lauber’s slow-burning case could take four years.
Here’s how some numbers stack up in the Fifa investigations:

121
Suspicious acts of possible money laundering being examined by Swiss federal prosecutors.
That number has grown from 53 in June.
“We have to decide for each and every report,” Lauber said Monday, “whether to open a new investigation, join it to an existing one and whether the assets have to be frozen.”

UNKNOWN
The value of already frozen assets, which Lauber declined to put a figure on.
Swiss accounts are the obvious asset to shut down but real estate was revealed on the list Monday. An unspecified number of apartments have been seized in the Swiss Alps
“Investments in real estate can be misused for the purpose of money laundering,” Lauber noted.

$600,000
The total amount Fifa charged its then vice president Jack Warner for World Cup television rights in the Caribbean for the 2010 and 2014 tournaments.
Warner sublicensed the rights to a family company and sold them on for up to $20 million. The Fifa deal from 2005 was signed by President Sepp Blatter, and Warner has claimed Blatter knowingly traded cheap TV rights for political support.
Lauber’s team seeks evidence of “criminal mismanagement” at Fifa. This should be one such case, former Fifa anti-corruption adviser Mark Pieth said Monday.

11
Terabytes of data being analysed for the Swiss case.
Most was seized from Fifa headquarters, some is the suspected money-laundering transactions.
That is a serious workload for a relatively small team of prosecutors, whose work began last November.
“We are not even near the halftime break,” Lauber said.

6
Extradition requests by US authorities which Switzerland’s justice ministry should publish its decisions on this week.
The six men – including a pair of 80-somethings in former Fifa vice president Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay, and 2014 World Cup organising committee head Jose Maria Marin of Brazil – were arrested in hotel raids in Zurich on May 27.
All six resisted extradition to the US which made formal requests to Swiss authorities in July.

20
Years in prison on racketeering charges facing those named in the US indictment. So far, 14 soccer and marketing officials have been charged, and four more have pleaded guilty.


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121 acts of possible money laundering, 11 terabytes of data, 20 years in prison: some key numbers in Fifa corruption investigation

Loretta Lynch and Michael Lauber. Photo: AFP

US attorney general Loretta Lynch gives details of the case. Photo: AFP

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Investigators carry files from the offices of Concacaf. Photo: Reuters

Michael Lauber says the investigation is huge. Photo: Reuters

Investigators have scrutinised bank accounts

Sepp Blatter - talking bull? Photo: AP

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch: more arrests expected in Fifa corruption probe 

Loretta Lynch speaks to the press. Photo: AFP

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and her Swiss counterpart Michael Lauber provide a joint update on the Fifa investigations in Zurich. Photo: AFP

Chuck Blazer, a former member of Fifa's executive committee, pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and racketeering conspiracy. Photo: EPA

Attorneys general Michael Lauber of Switzerland and Loretta Lynch of the US arrive to make a joint statement. Photo: AFP

Fifa president Sepp Blatter faces probe for underselling TV rights for the 2010 and 2014 editions of World Cup 

Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has insisted he has done no wrong. Photo: AP

The Fifa president gestures before the first game of the so-called "Sepp Blatter tournament" in his hometown of Ulrichen, Switzerland. Photo: Reuters 

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner gestures while talking to reporters after leaving the Magistrates' Court in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Photo: Reuters 

Fifa reforms revealed by panel chief Domenico Scala, but chances of change uncertain

Domenico Scala, Fifa chairman of the audit and compliance committee, says the reform process is essential to the organisation's future. Photo: EPA

Chairman of the 2016 Fifa Reform Committee, Swiss lawyer Francois Carrard, speaks during a press conference. Photo: AFP

Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been head of the world governing body for football for 17 years. Under Domeico Scala's plan, terms would be limited to 12 years. Photo: AFP

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Fifa vice-president, Jordanian Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein, has announced his candidacy in race for presidency. Photo: AFP

Jordan's Prince Ali bin al-Hussein says he will again campaign on an anti-corruption, reform programme. Photo: Xinhua 

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Photo: AP

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New details shed light on US investigation, which could run for four more years


Four months after stunning arrests and raids rocked Fifa, there could yet be four years until the final criminal trial is heard. Here’s how some numbers stack up in the Fifa investigations:


121 acts of possible money laundering, 11 terabytes of data, 20 years in prison: some key numbers in Fifa corruption investigation

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New details shed light on US investigation, which could run for four more years