Putin to the US: Hands off FIFA

WASHINGTON — For Vladimir Putin, the current FIFA embarrassment is simply one more case of the West's spontaneous intruding in its issues.

"This is yet another conspicuous endeavor [by the United States] to extend its locale to different states," the Russian president said Thursday, as per Reuters.

The captures were a "reasonable endeavor" to keep FIFA head Sepp Blatter from winning re-decision, Putin said. Russia, with Blatter's sponsorship, was as of late honored the privilege to host the 2018 World Cup.,

"It looks extremely weird, the captures are done on the solicitation of the USA side," Putin said.

"They are blamed for debasement – who is? Universal authorities. I assume that somebody broke a few principles, I don't have the foggiest idea. Anyway, without a doubt, its got nothing to do with the USA. Those authorities are not US residents. On the off chance that something happened it was not in the US and its nothing to do with them.

"The US prosecutor, as our media report, has effectively said that those Fifa authorities have perpetrated a wrongdoing," Putin proceeded. "As though the prosecutor didn't think about the rule of the assumption of blamelessness."

The Russian outside service likewise let go back at the Justice Department's declaration of 47 charges against authorities of FIFA, soccer's reality representing body, censuring it as another instance of illicit extraterritorial utilization of US laws.

"By and by, we encourage Washington to quit attempting to judge a long ways past its fringes for its legitimate gauges and take after the for the most part acknowledged universal lawful systems," Russian service representative A.K. Lukashevich said in an announcement Wednesday, as per an English interpretation.

"We trust that this will not the slightest bit be utilized to stain the worldwide football association all in all," he said.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko denied any wrongdoing in the different Swiss examination concerning FIFA's granting of the 2018 World Cup to Russia. Mutko told The Associated Press that they are "arranged to show everything" to examiners and that they don't have anything "to stow away."

The 47-number arraignment accused 14 respondents of racketeering, wire misrepresentation, government evasion and different offenses, finingish in an early-morning attack at a five-star Zurich lodging where Swiss authorities captured seven of the litigants who were staying there for a FIFA meeting later this week.