Top international prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, best known for pursuing war criminals, has been nominated as chief investigator at FIFA, soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body,with a brief to probe game-fixing and corruption.
Moreno-Ocampo’s term as chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague ends in June.
The 59-year-oldArgentine, an avid soccer fan, has described his ICC job as ensuring that the leaders and generals who are wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity get “a one-way ticket” to The Hague.