FIFA ethics committee unlikely to stop at Blatter, Platini

FIFA's chief ethics investigator Swiss attorney Cornel Borbely speaks during an interview with Reuters in Zurich March 4, 2015. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

ZURICH (Reuters) - Largely anonymous, lacking police powers and with its independence sometimes questioned, FIFA's ethics committee has often struggled to be taken seriously in the fight against corruption in football's world body.

While U.S. and Swiss authorities have grabbed the headlines with dawn raids on a luxury Zurich hotel and the indictment of 27 football officials, FIFA's own watchdog has had to fend off criticism that it is a weak lame duck.