Blatter says he met with U.S. Justice Department officials last fall

• Reuters, Friday, April 21, 2017 10:36 PM

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter told a group of international reporters on Friday he had met lawyers from the U.S. Justice Department but was not a suspect in their ongoing corruption investigations.

The 81-year-old Blatter, banned for six years by FIFA's own ethics committee at the height of the FIFA scandal, said he had met the U.S. lawyers in October or November, without going into further details.

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