Swiss Attorney General Suspends Prosecutor Olivier Thormann

The office of Switzerland's attorney general "suspended a federal prosecutor in connection with investigations into alleged improprieties in the world of football," according to THE LOCAL. The attorney general's office (OAG) said that the suspension was linked to "investigations into football and FIFA," but stressed it had "no connection" to recent Football Leaks "revelations of meetings" between high-level OAG and FIFA execs. The OAG said in a statement that it received "information about complaints" against the head of the federal prosecution's economic crimes division, named by Swiss media as Olivier Thormann, "leading to his suspension." Thormann was suspended "temporarily from all of his duties until further notice," the OAG said, "without specifying which specific investigations the prosecutor had been working on" (THE LOCAL, 11/9).