Blatter Questioned - While Warner Hearing in December
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As many wait on the Extradition Case in Trinidad today with former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of the World Football Body FIFA.
The attorney general's office said he was being investigated "on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as - alternatively - on suspicion of misappropriation".
It said Mr Blatter was currently being questioned.
Earlier, FIFA cancelled a press conference at its Zurich headquarters.
The Swiss attorney general's office said the investigation surrounds a TV rights deal Blatter signed with former Caribbean football chief Jack Warner in 2005.
Blatter is also suspected of "a disloyal payment" in 2011 to UEFA president Michel Platini, the statement said.
FIFA said it was co-operating with the Swiss Attorney General and had complied with its requests for information.
"We will continue this level of co-operation throughout the investigation," it said.
Meanwhile Former FIFA executive Jack Warner will face an extradition hearing in December after authorities in Trinidad and Tobago quashed attempts to have the case against him tossed out, officials said Friday.
Warner, 72, was indicted in May by a US grand jury on 12 charges of wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering over an escalating scandal at FIFA, football's world governing body.
"I do not think I can accede to the request," Deputy Chief Magistrate Mark Wellington told a hearing, ruling against a bid by Warner's legal team to dismiss the case.
