FILE PHOTO: FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks to journalists during a two days visit with Patrice Motsepe, president of CAF, African Football Confederation, (not pictured) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast May 4, 2021, REUTERS/Luc Gnago
ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino has won his bid to have a Swiss special prosecutor removed from an investigation looking at his undocumented dealings with Switzerland's former attorney general.
The ruling by the Federal Criminal Court caps a running legal battle between Infantino and prosecutor Stefan Keller, who in July opened criminal proceedings over meetings Infantino and former top prosecutor Michael Lauber held while Lauber's office investigated alleged corruption in world soccer.
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