{"id":96231,"date":"2026-08-27T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/uefa-preparing-criminal-complaint-against-fifas-infantino-asks-u-s-courts-for-fifa-documents\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:02:57","slug":"uefa-preparing-criminal-complaint-against-fifas-infantino-asks-u-s-courts-for-fifa-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/uefa-preparing-criminal-complaint-against-fifas-infantino-asks-u-s-courts-for-fifa-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA preparing criminal complaint against FIFA&#8217;s Infantino, asks U.S. courts for FIFA documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Europe&#8217;s soccer governing body is asking a U.S. federal court for permission to obtain testimony and documents from FIFA entities in Florida that it could use in a planned criminal complaint against embattled FIFA President Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>In a court filing on Thursday, UEFA said it is preparing a criminal complaint in Swiss courts against Infantino over possible financial mismanagement related to his <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/european-soccer-uefa-boycott-fifa-plan-sell-stake-world-cup-investors-joshua-kushner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">failed plan to sell future World Cup profits to private investors<\/a><\/span>, including a company founded by Joshua Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>The now-abandoned plan sought to transfer commercial rights linked to men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s World Cups and the Club World Cup into a new subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA said it filed a request in the southern Florida district court for authorization of discovery &#8220;in a foreign proceeding&#8221; against FIFA, which has offices in Miami&#8217;s Coral Gables neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also said it filed documents in a Manhattan court requesting discovery of potential evidence from the New York investment fund Thrive Capital Management, founded by Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>Kushner is the younger brother of Jared Kushner, President Trump&#8217;s son-in-law. Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/los-angeles-lakers-sold-bob-iger-josh-kushner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News reported<\/a> that Joshua Kushner and former Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger have agreed to purchase the Los Angeles Lakers franchise. The fee is $12.5 billion, sources familiar with the deal told CBS Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Infantino&#8217;s close\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fifa-infantino-trump-red-card-folarin-balogun-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">relationship with Mr. Trump drew scrutiny<\/a>\u00a0throughout this summer&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/2026-fifa-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">World Cup<\/a>, which was hosted jointly by the U.S., Mexico and Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thrive and Kushner were to be the anchor investors intending to pay FIFA $4.2 billion for a 20% stake in a subsidiary that would run the soccer body&#8217;s commercial events, including the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UEFA and its counsel are contemplating a Swiss criminal proceeding against Infantino and possibly other FIFA officials for criminal mismanagement under Article 158 of the Swiss Criminal Code,&#8221; UEFA&#8217;s lawyers state in a 56-page document seen by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The document suggests the $4.2 billion figure could be a &#8220;fraudulently off-market price promoted by Infantino for his own benefit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UEFA was the first to react to Infantino&#8217;s plan, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/european-soccer-uefa-boycott-fifa-plan-sell-stake-world-cup-investors-joshua-kushner\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">threatening to boycott any FIFA-sponsored competitions<\/a><\/span>, which would have included the next men&#8217;s World Cup, which will be hosted in Europe and Africa. Spain, which is a UEFA member team, is the current holder of the World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino was forced to\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fifa-shelves-world-cup-investment-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">scrap the plan on Aug. 1<\/a><\/span>\u00a0after his senior adviser, who sat on a White House panel, resigned and Asia&#8217;s soccer body joined Europe and North America in opposing it.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA, which issued a blistering statement saying it had lost confidence in Infantino&#8217;s leadership at FIFA, first threatened to take legal action on Aug. 3 when it warned FIFA against destroying or hiding any &#8220;relevant materials&#8221; related to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Infantino claimed that the plan would &#8216;unleash the commercial potential and opportunity that FIFA has,'&#8221; UEFA lawyers told the courts. &#8220;In truth, it was a vehicle for Infantino and that small circle to acquire a permanent stake in and otherwise profit from FIFA&#8217;s most valuable assets to the detriment of FIFA, its members, and other parties within the football family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the terms Infantino announced, those investors stood to acquire a permanent financial interest in FIFA&#8217;s commercial arm for $4.2 billion, implying an absurdly low enterprise value of only approximately $20 billion, a figure that was neither the product of an open, competitive auction, nor tested by any independent valuer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for FIFA and Thrive have not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p 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