• Swiss prosecutors were looking into three alleged secret meetings between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and the country’s former attorney general
• The case against the FIFA chief has now been closed after over three years 
• He and FIFA marked the decision with a triumphalist statement on Thursday

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has rejoiced in a ‘full and clear victory for me’ after Swiss prosecutors closed an investigation into alleged wrongdoing.

The probe, launched in July 2020, was looking into three alleged secret meetings between Infantino, the former Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber and chief public prosecutor of the Upper Valais, Rinaldo Arnold, supposedly in 2016 and 2017.

Lauber headed an investigation into world football’s governing body between 2015 and 2019 before resigning in 2020 amid the fallout from it.

Infantino had been accused of ‘incitement to abuse of authority, violation of official secrecy and obstruction of criminal action.’

However, Swiss Extraordinary Federal Prosecutors Hans Maurer and Ulrich Weder have now dismissed the proceedings against the FIFA president.

Maurer and Weder took over the investigation in May 2021 after prosecutor Stefan Keller was removed from his position after a court ruled he could not ‘guarantee a fair process.’

That followed a successful complaint from FIFA over four press releases issued from his office which world football’s governing body said demonstrated ‘extreme bias’.

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