World football chiefs arrested in Fifa corruption probe

Swiss government agents have swept into a luxury hotel for a pre-dawn second wave of arrests on corruption charges as members of Fifa's executive committee prepared to vote on reforming football's scandal-plagued governing body.

The arrests were linked to US prosecutors' widening probe into football corruption, with five current and former members of Fifa's ruling executive committee among 16 additional men accused of bribes and corrupt payments.

The 92-count US indictment took down an entire generation of football leaders in South America, a bedrock of Fifa and World Cup history.

"The betrayal of trust set forth here is truly outrageous," US attorney general Loretta Lynch said. "The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable."

In Switzerland, Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, president of the South American confederation (CONMEBOL) and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, head of the North and Central American and Caribbean governing body (CONCACAF) were led away by police who swooped on Zurich's Baur au Lac hotel.

The arrests - at the same hotel where initial raid took place in May - came just before Fifa's executive committee met to approve reform and transparency measures long...