On Wednesday morning, Blatter – who was not among those arrested – was said to be actively lobbying to have Friday’s election postponed. The US Department of Justice said authorities had charged 14 officials, nine of whom are current or former Fifa executives. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Fifa spokesman Walter De Gregorio: "This confirms that we are on the right track" 
 
 Both Swiss and US justice officials said the indicted officials had allegedly received $150m worth of bribes from the early 1990s for football tournaments in the US and Latin America. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said: “The US attorney’s office for the eastern district of New York is investigating these individuals on suspicion of the acceptance of bribes and kickbacks between the early 1990s and the present day. He and FIFA have weathered corruption controversies in the past, but none involved charges of federal crimes in United States court. Facebook Twitter Pinterest L-R: (top row) Former President of the Brazilian Football Confederation Jose Maria Marin, President of the Venezuelan Football Federation Rafael Esquivel, President of Costa Rica Football Federation Eduardo Li, former President of South American Football Confederation Nicolas Leoz, (bottom row) former President of the Nicaraguan Football Federation Julio Rocha, former Acting President of South American Football Confederation Eugenio Figueredo, former FIFA Executive member Jack Warner, and President of Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football Jeffery Webb. Arrests 
 
 In addition to the U.S. probe into corruption that Lynch earlier called "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted," soccer's governing body also finds itself on the end of a Swiss investigation into World Cup bidding.  ZURICH (AP) — The Swiss Federal Office of Justice says six soccer officials have been arrested and detained pending extradition at the request of U.S. authorities ahead of the FIFA congress in Zurich. Image copyright AFP / getty images Image caption The Fifa executives indicted include Rafael Esquivel, Nicolas Leoz, Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and Jose Maria Marin 
 
 The seven arrested at a five-star hotel in Zurich on Wednesday were: 
 
 Jeffrey Webb - head of Concacaf, and Fifa vice-president 
 
 Costa Rica's national football chief Eduardo Li, who was due to join Fifa's executive committee on Friday 
 
 Uruguay's Eugenio Figueredo, president of South American football governing body Conmebol 
 
 Venezuelan Football Federation president Rafael Esquivel 
 
 Brazil's Jose Maria Marin, a member of Fifa's club committee 
 
 Fifa development officer Julio Rocha, from Nicaragua 
 
 Costas Takkas, of the UK, an attache to the Concacaf president 
 
 Also indicted are former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Aaron Davidson, Alejandro Burzaco, Jose Margulies, and Hugo and Mariano Jinkis. FIFA President Sepp Blatter is not one of those arrested or facing charges by U.S. authorities, but he was among those investigated 
 
 Asked if the U.S. investigation had cleared Blatter, Lynch told reporters, "I'm not able to comment further on Mr. Blatter's status." "The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has opened criminal proceedings against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 Football World Cups," the office said Wednesday. "In the course of said proceedings, electronic data and documents were seized today at FIFA's head office in Zurich." The alleged crimes were agreed to and prepared in the US via US bank accounts, the office of the Swiss prosecutor said, adding that the Swiss authorities could immediately approve the extradition. Swiss federal police will question Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko about how FIFA awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, an official with knowledge of the investigation has confirmed to CNN. Fifa corruption crisis: the key figures in the controversy Read more 
 
 The arrests were made on behalf of US authorities, after an FBI investigation that has been under way for at least three years. Hide Caption 10 of 10 
 
 In December, FIFA's Ethics Committee said it was closing its investigation into alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 bidding process that awarded the World Cup to Russia and Qatar, respectively. The FOJ can immediately approve their extradition to the US and order its execution.
– If there were a World Cup for tackling corruption in soccer, the US would now be the runaway favorite to win it. At least six officials from FIFA, soccer's world governing body, were arrested in a surprise overnight raid at a hotel in Zurich, where they had gathered for their annual meeting, the AP reports. More: The soccer chiefs are being held pending possible extradition to the US on federal corruption charges that go back more than 20 years and include alleged bribery involving World Cup bids, sources tell the New York Times. The Times' sources say US prosecutors targeted members of FIFA's powerful and secretive executive committee, and the BBC reports that those arrested include Jeffrey Webb, head of the confederation for North and Central America and the Caribbean. The officials arrested in Zurich do not include FIFA President Sepp Blatter—who is up for re-election Friday—but sources tell the Guardian that nearly a dozen other soccer officials worldwide may have been arrested overnight. The bribery allegations are believed to center on bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, and the Swiss have now opened their own investigation into the bidding, reports the BBC. The charges follow a long FBI investigation, reports CNN, which notes that although most or all of the alleged bribery is believed to have occurred outside the US, American prosecutors may be able to claim jurisdiction because of the long reach of US banking regulations, and because the US is the biggest World Cup television market. (Allegations of FIFA corruption go back many years and include claims that Russia gave away a Picasso as it bribed its way toward hosting the 2018 World Cup.)