The former president of the federation has confessed that other former directors and employees of Fesfut participated together with him in the plot known as FIFAgate
A hearing was held this Monday for Reynaldo Vásquez, Former president of the Salvadoran Football Federation, extradited to the United States to be prosecuted by the FIFA Gate.
The trial took place this Monday at the Brooklyn Court, New York, USA, After Vásquez requested the procedure last week, through his lawyers.
“Reynaldo Vázquez, former president of the Salvadoran Football Federation, is currently accepting his guilt in the case #FIFAGate. He will be guilty of one charge: conspiracy to participate in organized crime (known as RICO in English), “the journalist and writer said. Ken Besinger, Who anticipated since last week on Twitter the statement of the former Salvadoran leader.
Vásquez was extradited from El Salvador last January after being required by US justice, reportedly for accept bribes to grant rights of transmission and marketing of the National Team of El Salvador for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Brazil.
Vásquez is also noted for participating in three other possible crimes: one charge of electronic fraud, two charges of money laundering conspiracy, and one charge of money laundering as such, Always related to FIFAGate, but would be exonerated from these under the agreement to collaborate with the Prosecutor’s Office.
The former president of FESFUT, Reynaldo Vásquez (c.), Was prosecuted in San Salvador for the crime of accountability to employees of his company. Photo / Archive
Bensinger claims that Vásquez’s goal with this guilty plea is to minimize the maximum sentence for the position he has accepted, which is up to 20 years. “The prosecution recently said according to its calculations Vázquez deserves a sentence of between 33 and 41 months. The defense (Vásquez’s lawyers) says it must be 27 to 33 months, “he says.
On the other hand, Carmen Rodríguez, a Salvadoran journalist based in the USA and who also covers this case, reports that Vásquez also confessed in the case of money laundering, fraud and bribes what “other former directors and employees of the FESFUT ”, As well as “A company based and registered in El Salvador “.
In this way, Reynaldo Vásquez could call i to denounce in the coming days the three co-conspirators # 18, # 20 and # 22 who are cited in the report of the case presented by the Prosecutor’s Office of this country, in 2015, To which he referred while accepting his guilt in this hearing.
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A new hearing was set by the judge in the case for this 16 des, Where the final sentence will be known by Vásquez. After serving his sentence, whoever he is, the ex-federal would be deported back to El Salvador.