More FIFA arrests as Swiss police conduct pre-dawn raids on luxury hotel

SWISS authorities have conducted another series of pre-dawn raids as part of an investigation into alleged FIFA corruption, according to reports. 

Police conducted pre-dawn raids on the luxury hotel this morning

Some of the arrests are said to have taken place at the same luxury hotel where FIFA officials were arrested in May in early morning raids that rocked football.

Police are believed to have entered the hotel, the Baur au Lac, Switzerland, at 6am.

A hotel manager told visitors in the lobby they had to leave the property because of "an extreme situation."

These latest arrests come as FIFA's executive committee was convening in Zurich to discuss further reforms to the organization. 

Earlier this year, U.S. federal prosecutors ordered the arrest of a number of high ranking FIFA officials on charges of corruption. The scandal ultimately forced FIFA's longstanding president Sepp Blatter, 79, to resign. 

In October, Mr Blatter, along with Uefa president Michel Platini, was banned by FIFA's ethics committee for a period of 90 days, after Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings against him, on suspicion of mismanagement and misappropriation. Blatter denies any wrondoing. 

Thursday's arrests come as FIFA's ethics committee was convening in Zurich

Over the years, FIFA has been marred by a number of corruption scandals. Critics say bribery and kick-back schemes have been rampant within the organization for decades, but highly sophisticated networks based on cronyism and patronage made it virtually impossible to catch the culprits.

In spite of today's arrests, the FIFA Executive Committee said on the organization's website that the presidential election will go ahead as scheduled on 26 February 2016.