In an international soccer corruption case, a Swiss bank will pay nearly $80 million in penalties after conspiring to launder money in collaboration with Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) officials, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Thursday.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner Juan Morillo represents Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd., which acknowledged as part of a deferred prosecution agreement that it conspired between February 2013 and May 2015 to launder more than $35 million in bribe payments through the United States as part of “a scheme in which sports marketing companies bribed soccer officials in exchange for broadcasting rights to soccer matches,” according to court documents.

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