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FIFA director of communications Walter De Gregorio says football's governing body initiated the Swiss investigation which resulted in charges being made against officials on Tuesday, after dawn raids and arrests in Zurich.

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SOUNDBITE (English): Walter De Gregorio, FIFA director of communications +++NOTE: AUDIO IS ENGLISH TRANSLATION+++

"First and foremost FIFA initiated this process on November 18 last year. FIFA lodged a legal complaint with the Federal Attorney and as you all know, it had to do with the attribution of the World Cups 2018 and 2022. On this basis relies the Attorney General of Switzerland for their current investigation and the second point, important to me and this I wish to underscore is that FIFA - and the timing may not obviously be the best - but definitely FIFA welcomes this process and FIFA co-operates fully with the Attorney General of Switzerland and the Federal Office of Justice and it corresponds to all requests for information. And the third point is very important, it was also underscored by the Attorney General in their press release, this was underscored explicitly and I wish to repeat this, that in this case, FIFA is the damaged party. In this context FIFA is the damaged party and this leads to the fact that there were no searches within the offices of FIFA, the people of the Federal Attorney are here, we co-operate with them, we provide all the information requested by them and this for our own interests. Because it is of our highest interest that all open questions can be answered, all questions open in the light of these, this complaint we have lodged on 18 November."