Fifapamp går med på att utlämnas till Uruguay
Internationella fotbollsförbundet Fifas tidigare vice ordförande har gått med på att utlämnas till hemlandet Uruguay från Schweiz. 83-årige Eugenio Figueredo, som är anklagad för korruption, var en av sju Fifahöjdare som greps i Zürich i våras.
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Eugenio Figueredo
Wikipedia (sv)
Eugenio Figueredo född 10 mars 1932 Santa Lucía, Uruguay är en uruguayansk tidigare fotbollsspelare och senare idrottsledare. Han var 1997–2006 president för Uruguays fotbollsförbund (Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol) och 1993-2013 var han vice president för CONMEBOL. I april 2013 övertog han presidentposten efter Nicolás Leoz och var 2014-2015 vicepresident i internationella fotbollsförbundet FIFA.
Schweiz har beslutade 2015 att utlämna Figueredo till USA, där han är anklagad för att vara inblandad i mutskandalen kring FIFA och dessutom för att falskeligen ha fått amerikanskt medborgarskap.
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Fifaskandalen
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In 2015, U.S. federal prosecutors disclosed cases of corruption by officials and associates connected with FIFA, the governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer.
Near the end of May 2015, fourteen people were indicted in connection with an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) into wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering. The United States Attorney General simultaneously announced the unsealing of the indictments and the prior guilty pleas by four football executives and two corporations.
The investigation mostly revolved around collusion between officials of continental football bodies CONMEBOL (South America) and CONCACAF (Caribbean, Central and North America), and sports marketing executives. The sports marketing executives were holders of media and marketing rights for high-profile international competitions including the Americas' FIFA World Cup qualifying tournaments, and showpiece tournaments CONCACAF Gold Cup and Copa América. CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb, also serving president of the Cayman Islands Football Association, was arrested in connection with the investigation, as were two sitting FIFA Executive Committee members: Eduardo Li of the Costa Rican Football Federation and Eugenio Figueredo, formerly of the Uruguayan Football Association and former CONMEBOL President Nicolás Leoz. The investigation lasted several years, with the first arrest, of Warner's son Daryll, made in July 2013.
In total, seven current FIFA officials were arrested at the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zürich on May 27. They were preparing to attend the 65th FIFA Congress, which was scheduled to include the election of the president of FIFA. They are expected to be extradited to the United States on suspicion of receiving US$150 million in bribes. There was also a simultaneous raid on the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami, and later, two further men handed themselves in to police for arrest: former CONCACAF president Jack Warner and marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco.
The arrests case triggered Australia, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Switzerland to open or intensify separate criminal investigations into top FIFA officials for corruption.
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