PARIS (AFP) - The US Department of Justice has agreed to hand Fifa US$201 million (S$272 million) confiscated from corrupt football administrators, the governing body of world football announced on Tuesday (Aug 24).

Most of the cash comes from US legal actions in the wake of the "Fifagate" scandal, which erupted in May 2015 with the dramatic arrest of seven world football executives in Zurich and led a few months later to the departure of Sepp Blatter, Fifa's president since 1998.