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Days after declaring that its  investigation into the bidding for soccer’s 2018 and 2022 World Cups  had not found any evidence pointing to a corruption of that process, FIFA announced on Tuesday that it was turning over the report from the inquiry to the Swiss authorities because it suspected that its investigators had uncovered criminal activity. In  an interview with FIFA’s website , Hans-Joachim Eckert, the German judge who reviewed the report submitted by the ethics committee’s lead investigator, said he had urged FIFA’s president, Sepp Blatter, to file the criminal complaint with Switzerland’s attorney general because, while he had not found enough evidence in the report to call into question the entire bidding process, he had determined that there was “suspected unlawful activity in connection with Switzerland” committed by unidentified people related to the vote. A  FIFA statement  said that “in isolated cases, international transfers of assets...