SHOWS: BERN, SWITZERLAND (MAY 10, 2019) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1.

(SOUNDBITE) (French) SWISS ATTORNEY GENERAL, MICHAEL LAUBER, SAYING: "Everywhere we are talking about this crisis, I don't see it as a necessary crisis.

On the contrary, I still see myself as part of the solution, that is why I told you clearly, I'm still candidate.

This will be up to the parliament to say what they think about what is happening in the media, in public opinion, in commissions.

This is their decision, not mine.

And if I tell you clearly that I am not lying, that I always speak the truth, this is also my role to protect, not only myself, but also the cases and the whole office.

I'm not representing the office alone, we have more than 240 people working everyday on cases." 2.

WHITE FLASH 3.

(SOUNDBITE) (French) SWISS ATTORNEY GENERAL, MICHAEL LAUBER, SAYING: "The public ministry is very fragile in a sense that if one attack with a disciplinary investigation, with the idea that I'm lying, that one does not understand, that one gives the impression I'm not telling the truth, well this gives me the possibility to say that in principle, this impacts upon trust in the institution.

And very fast, because of the system of the article 9 of the (inaudible) the institution is in danger." STORY: Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber on Friday (May 10) called a disciplinary probe into his conduct in a soccer corruption investigation an attack on the independence of his office.

The watchdog overseeing Swiss federal prosecutors has ordered a disciplinary investigation into Lauber over private meetings with the head of the global soccer body FIFA.

Lauber said "conspiracy theories" over his meetings with FIFA President Gianni Infantino and presumptions of dishonesty were interfering with prosecutorial integrity ahead of a parliamentary vote over his re-election due in June.

Lauber has been investigating several cases of suspected corruption involving FIFA, based in Zuerich, dating back to 2014 and the presidency of Sepp Blatter.

The criminal probe treats FIFA as a victim rather than a suspect.

The Swiss Attorney General had acknowledged two meetings with current FIFA president Infantino in 2016, saying they were intended to help coordinate his investigation.

But media reports of a third meeting in 2017 prompted a preliminary investigation by the Supervisory Authority for the Office of the Attorney General, which said Lauber had denied having any other such meetings while in office.

Lauber later said he did not recall the third meeting but that it must have occurred based on diary entries and text messages.

Lauber was quizzed by a parliamentary controls committee on Friday and said he would face other committees next week.