On this day in conspiracies

The Ottoman government enacts the Temporary Law of Deportation (the Tehcir Law), giving military and civil authorities sweeping power to remove populations deemed a security threat. It becomes the legal instrument for the mass deportation of Armenians from Anatolia, framed publicly as wartime relocation.

Swiss police arrest seven soccer officials at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich at the request of U.S. authorities, days before FIFA's presidential election. In Brooklyn the Justice Department unseals a 47-count indictment charging 14 defendants with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering, alleging over $150 million in bribes and kickbacks since 1991.

Swiss police arrest several officials at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich at US request. The DOJ unseals a 47-count indictment charging 14 defendants (9 soccer officials and 5 sports-marketing executives) with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies. Prosecutors describe more than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks for media and marketing rights and for tournament hosting. Guilty pleas by additional individual and corporate defendants are unsealed the same day.

An Argentine federal court, after a 13-year trial, convicts former de facto president Reynaldo Bignone and 14 other former military officers of crimes against humanity for their roles in Operation Condor. It is the first judicial ruling in the region to find the cross-border conspiracy proven as a matter of law.