Switzerland

The corruption scandal at the armaments manufacturer Atlas Electronics is growing. The subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp and Airbus, each holding 50 percent of the shares, had brought cash checks to Switzerland to deposit them into the account of a Turkish army member. .

It is the biggest bribe process so far: The Brazilian construction group Odebrecht and a subsidiary pay at least $ 3.5 billion to the USA, Switzerland and Brazil.

Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead fifa out of years of Corruption and scandal after the former UEFA general secretary was elected to succeed his Swiss compatriot Sepp Blatter as president of football's world governing body.

Crisis-hit world football governing body fifa faces one of the most important days in its 112-year history when it elects a new leader on Friday hoping to usher in a fresh era after decades of tawdry controversy.

World football's governing body fifa will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst Graft scandal in its history.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the two most powerful men in world football, had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six.

Law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested two more fifa officials suspected of taking millions of dollars in bribes, Swiss authorities said, as part of an ongoing investigation of Graft at football's world governing body.

Suspended fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday he believes that only the Congress of football's governing body, and not its Ethics Committee, can bar him from office.

Suspended fifa president Sepp Blatter, his federation mired in a Corruption crisis, is in hospital for medical checks but should be discharged soon, his U.S. lawyer said on Friday.His former public relations officer, Klaus Stoehlker, said the 79-year-old Swiss, who was last month suspended for 90 days by the Ethics Committee of football's world governing body, was under "tremendous pressure from so many sides".

Herve Falciani, an ex-employee of HSBC's (HSBA.L) Geneva private bank who leaked information on clients and their tax situation, said he would not attend his trial next week on charges of breaking Swiss bank secrecy rules.Falciani said on Wednesday he would be willing to explain his position to a court in another country, for example the European Court of Human Rights. "I won't do it in Switzerland where the conditions for a just and fair trial are, in my opinion, not met," Falciani told a news conference that was webcast from the French town of Divonne-les-Bains near the Swiss border.