FIFA to brief executive committee on US, Swiss probes

FILE-- In this Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, photo, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, right, hands the official ball for the 2010 soccer World Cup, called Jabulani, to World Cup organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan in Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa's main opposition party, The Democratic Alliance, said it filed papers with police on Monday asking them to investigate the involvement of former World Cup head Danny Jordaan and former South African Football Association President Molefi Oliphant in alleged bribery to get the World Cup. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, FILE) FILE-- In this Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, photo, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, right, hands the official ball for the 2010 soccer World Cup, called Jabulani, to World Cup organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan in Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa's main opposition party, The Democratic Alliance, said it filed papers with police on Monday asking them to investigate the involvement of former World Cup head Danny Jordaan and former South African Football Association President Molefi Oliphant in alleged bribery to get the World Cup. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, FILE)

By Associated Press September 22, 2015 1 min read

ZURICH (AP) – FIFA will update its executive committee members this week on the American and Swiss corruption investigations which involve some of them.

The two-day session starting Thursday will be chaired by President Sepp Blatter, who is an expected target of both federal cases.

Blatter’s reluctance to visit countries which have an extradition treaty with the United States appears to have affected FIFA’s business schedule.

FIFA says the executive committee will decide Friday on the date and place of its next meeting.

That had previously been scheduled to take place on Dec. 17-18 in Japan, which hosts the Club World Cup and where Blatter could risk arrest.