FIFA, the governing body of world football, and other football bodies were declared victims of corruption by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday. All of them would get more than $200 million from cash forfeited in a sprawling investigation dating back to 2015.

Federal prosecutors said that the first amount of $32.2 million will be paid into a “World Football Remission Fund” overseen by the FIFA Foundation charity.

“This announcement is the beginning of the process for returning funds to the victims of the FIFA bribery scandal and marks the department’s continued commitment to ensuring justice for those victims harmed by this scheme,” the Department of Justice was quoted by AP as saying.

FIFA’s charity supports projects in schools, helps the sport recover after natural disasters, develops women’s and girls’ football, and the FIFA Legends program that uses former players as ambassadors.

“I would like to thank the US authorities for the trust placed in FIFA. We will make sure that these funds are used properly and bring tangible benefits for people who really need it,” AP quoted FIFA president Gianni Infantino as saying.

The money will now be under FIFA’s control in Zurich though it never belonged to the world soccer body.

The forfeited money was typically linked to bribes and kickbacks from broadcasting and sponsor deals for continental competitions in the Americas and national deals for World Cup qualifying games.

More than $150 million was ordered to be forfeited by Jose Hawilla, the Brazilian marketing executive who has since died. His group of agencies had close relationships with the South American soccer body CONMEBOL and North America’s CONCACAF.

The remission deal follows more than five years after FIFA claimed tens of millions of dollars in restitution for itself from money held by prosecutors who secured dozens of guilty pleas from soccer and marketing executives, mostly in the Americas.

Some are still awaiting sentencing in federal court in Brooklyn years after admitting charges of financial wrongdoing. Indicted soccer officials have avoided extradition while remaining in Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.

The ongoing investigation was unsealed in May 2015 and rocked world soccer while its leaders met in Zurich and two days later re-elected Sepp Blatter as FIFA president.

The next week, Blatter announced his plans to resign in the fallout from a case that ultimately removed a generation of leaders from the Americas who also held senior positions at FIFA.

Blatter was never implicated directly by US prosecutors though since September 2015 has been the subject of criminal proceedings in Switzerland, where federal prosecutors are still running separate though connected investigations.

However, at least $10 million of the restitution FIFA requested was its own money paid out during Blatter’s presidency.

In its 2016 claim, FIFA described the “theft” of payments totaling $10 million it transferred to CONCACAF leaders that was acknowledged as bribes to vote for South Africa as the 2010 World Cup host.

The restitution claim was revealed three weeks after the February 2016 election of Infantino to succeed Blatter.

Infantino oversaw creating the FIFA Foundation and appointing former Argentina president Mauricio Macri as its executive chairman.