Swiss police searched the headquarters of European football body UEFA in Nyon on Wednesday and were handed details of a contract with an offshore marketing agency signed off by new FIFA president and former UEFA executive Gianni Infantino, according to dpa. UEFA said it cooperated with the police visit, which was carried out after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the latest revelations from the Panama Papers leak. The Swiss Attorney General's Office said it conducted a search "on a cooperative basis" and "within the scope of ongoing criminal proceedings" to collect evidence at UEFA headquarters "and at another enterprise." Documents show that Infantino, as then UEFA's legal services director, co-signed contracts on Champions League TV rights with a company co-owned by Argentinian Hugo Jinkis, who was indicted in the United States in May as part of an alleged 100-million-dollar fraud. Infantino issued a statement saying he welcomed "any investigation" relating to the contracts. Based on the documents it was "clear that all contractual matters were conducted properly by UEFA," he said.
