El Salvador ex-football chief arrested in FIFA probe
He was apprehended in a seaside residential complex south of the capital by elite police officers.
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El Salvador`s former national football chief, Reynaldo Vasquez, was arrested Wednesday as part of a US probe into multimillion-dollar corruption at FIFA, a senior Salvadoran police official said.
He was apprehended in a seaside residential complex south of the capital by elite police officers.
"He offered no resistance at the time of his arrest" and was now being detained in a cell in the capital usually used for suspected drug traffickers, the deputy director of police, Howard Cotto, told a news conference.
El Salvador`s Supreme Court has given initial approval to a US request for his extradition, but that could yet be delayed given legal action under way in Salvadoran courts against Vasquez.
The 59-year-old businessman is notably accused in his country of failing to pay social security charges for employees in his furniture company, and also for aggravated fraud.
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