Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter paid himself €29.5m in pay rise and bonuses between 2011 and 2015, according to Fifa lawyers.
Details emerged of ‘irregular payments’ made by Blatter, and his former deputies Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner, which total €70 million over a five-year period.
The organisation’s lawyers claim the payments violate Swiss law, and evidence will be passed to the US justice department and Swiss federal prosecutors, both of whom are investigating Fifa.
In what has become a regular occurrence at Fifa’s headquarters in Zurich, police raided the premises on Friday morning, and the office of Kattner, the organisation’s former finance director was searched.
It is understood that Blatter pocketed €29.8m, Valcke got €29.3m and Kattner €12.1m.
According to Bill Burck, a lawyer with Quinn Emanuel, the American law firm retained by Fifa during its corruption crisis: “The evidence appears to reveal a coordinated effort by three former top officials of Fifa to enrich themselves through annual salary increases, World Cup bonuses and other incentives totalling more than 79m Swiss francs in just the last five years.”
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