Attorney General Loretta Lynch accused soccer’s world governing body Wednesday of deep-rooted corruption that allowed members and related firms to enrich themselves through bribery and kickbacks “year after year, tournament after tournament.”

Lynch outlined U.S. complaints against the sport’s powerful overseers, known as FIFA, hours after a stunning series of indictments and arrests, including a roundup in which Swiss authorities led seven top FIFA officials from a luxury hotel in Zurich.

At least one suspect was shielded from journalists by a white sheet as he boarded a waiting car.

Moments earlier in New York, the Justice Department had unsealed a 47-count indictment charging 14 world soccer figures, including officials of FIFA, with racketeering, bribery, money laundering and fraud totaling more than $150 million. FIFA is the French abbreviation for the International Federation of Association Football, the global governing body of soccer.

Four other people, as well as two sports marketing companies, have already pleaded guilty and are likely to be cooperating.

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