On, following Infantino's proposal, FIFA Council decided not to renew the mandates of Borbély and Eckert. In early 2017, reports became public about FIFA president Gianni Infantino attempting to prevent the re-elections of both chairmen of the ethics committee, Cornel Borbély and Hans-Joachim Eckert, during the FIFA congress in May 2017. Many officials were suspended by FIFA's ethics committee including Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. are expected to be extradited to face charges there as well. Those among these officials who were also indicted in the U.S. On, several of these officials were arrested by Swiss authorities, who were launching a simultaneous but separate criminal investigation into how the organization awarded the 20 World Cups. Department of Justice on charges including racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. These allegations led to the indictments of nine high-ranking FIFA officials and five corporate executives by the U.S. Reports by investigative journalists have linked FIFA leadership with corruption, bribery, and vote-rigging related to the election of FIFA president Sepp Blatter and the organization's decision to award the 20 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. All FIFA tournaments generate revenue from sponsorship in 2018, FIFA had revenues of over US $4.6 billion, ending the 2015–2018 cycle with a net positive of US$1.2 billion, and had cash reserves of over US$2.7 billion. Although FIFA does not solely set the laws of the game, that being the responsibility of the International Football Association Board of which FIFA is a member, it applies and enforces the rules across all FIFA competitions. It is responsible for the organization and promotion of association football's major international tournaments, notably the World Cup which commenced in 1930 and the Women's World Cup which commenced in 1991. It outlines a number of objectives in the organizational Statutes, including growing association football internationally, providing efforts to ensure it is accessible to everyone, and advocating for integrity and fair play. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: Africa, Asia, Europe, North & Central America and the Caribbean, Oceania and South America. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations Russia was suspended in 2022. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. FIFA ( / ˈ f iː f ə/) is an international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal.
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