FIFA Fires a Top Official Amid New Questions of Wrongdoing

Photo Markus Kattner, FIFA’s acting secretary general, at the association’s congress in Mexico City this month.FIFA, the governing body of global soccer, announced on Monday that the man who controlled its finances for the last eight months had been fired for violating his fiduciary duty to the organization.

The dismissal of that official, Markus Kattner, came almost exactly a year after American authorities announced a far-reaching corruption case focused on world soccer that has continually upended the sport’s leadership.

Mr. Kattner stepped in as FIFA’s secretary general last fall, after American and Swiss authorities announced continuing criminal investigations into world soccer. In a…