Experts were quick to place the range of possible legal liabilities from negligible to catastrophic: possible lines of inquiry include bank fraud, campaign-finance or Lobbying Disclosure Act violations, and even bribery.
Prosecutors say wealthy parents paid an independent consultant who bribed testing officials and college coaches who endorsed some applicants as athletes.
A US hedge fund has been ordered to pay almost half a billion dollars to settle charges it bribed officials and a number of African countries to secure mining and investment rights.
In a remarkable statement, Mr Lee, who was convicted of bribery in 2017, pledged that he would be the last person from his family to lead the conglomerate.
Some had perished before the taskforce had a chance to interrogate them -- such as Anuj Uieke, a medical student accused of working as a middleman connecting exam aspirants and Vyapam officials.
有的人在专案组有机会对他们进行询问之前就死了———比如被指控担任行贿人和V yapam官员之间的联系人的医学院学生阿努吉·乌伊克(A nuj U ieke)。
The probe relates to alleged bribes a sports marketing company paid to FIFA officials including Blatter's predecessor Joao Havelange in the 1990s. Our sports correspondent Don Row has the details.