by Our Sports Desk

SWISS police raided the offices of European football confederation Uefa yesterday, wanting to get hold of a set of dodgy contracts exposed by the Panama Papers leak.

Infantino said he was “dismayed” and “will not accept” that his integrity is being doubted after documents leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca included a television rights contract bearing his signature.

The 46-year-old Swiss-Italian, in his former role as Uefa director of legal services, co-signed a TV rights contract in 2006 with two businessmen who have since been caught up in football’s corruption scandal, said the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Infantino and Uefa deny any wrongdoing.

Uefa said it would supply the Swiss Federal Police “with all relevant documents” after they turned up with a warrant for “contracts between Uefa and Cross Trading/Teleamazonas.”

Earlier, New Fifa Now co-founder and Tory MP Damian Collins had urged Infantino to act against corruption within world governing body Fifa to dispel any doubts about his conduct.

“The question many people ask is: so far what’s changed? Fifa agreed on reforms, but where is the implementation?” Collins asked.

“There’s been a change of style, but has there been a change of substance and when is that going to come through?

“On issues like this Infantino needs to stand up and be counted, try to persuade people that he will drive through the reforms without fear or favour and radically change the culture and practices of world football.

“If he is unable to lead the change that it needs — not just in terms of the statutes, but the culture of the organisation — then there will have to be a much more radical overhaul of Fifa.

“His election was a step in the journey to reform, but only a small step and a lot more needs to be done.”

Before Infantino was elected, Fifa agreed to reforms on its governance, accountability, transparency and diversity.

But its troubled past continues to cast a shadow.

The leaked papers from Panamanian lawyers Mossack Fonseca show that in 2006 Infantino co-signed a contract on behalf of Uefa to sell television rights for the Champions League and other club competitions.

The deal was with two figures who have since been accused of bribery as part of the United States investigation into corruption at Fifa. Hugo Jinkis and Mariano Jinkis, his son, are currently under house arrest in Argentina.

Cross Trading, the Jinkises’ Argentinian company which was registered in the South Pacific tax haven of Niue, bought the rights for $111,000 (now £78,780), according to the ICIJ.

The rights were immediately sold the rights on to Ecuadorian broadcaster Teleamazonas for $311,170 (£220,800).

Uefa initially denied doing business with any of the 14 people charged by the FBI, but has since backtracked.

After reviewing commercial contracts, Uefa said the deal was an “open tender” conducted by another firm, with the rights sold to the highest bidder.