The former football manager was taken into custody by Interpol del Salvador on a commercial flight to be handed over to US authorities.
Former President of the Salvadoran Football Federation, Reynaldo Alan Vásquez was extradited to the United States that day to answer before a district court for electronic fraud, criminal association for money laundering and money laundering, among others, has informed the Attorney General’s Office.
The extradition was authorized by the Tenth Justice of the Peace Court, after it was postponed on two occasions because the authorities of the United States Department of Justice and the Directorate of Migration had not presented the documentation as the plane ticket, the date of the Covid-19 test by Vásquez, the route that would follow in American territory; others.
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This documentation was presented last Monday and was set for this Friday as the date of his extradition, according to judicial sources.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment stemmed from the alleged bribe Vásquez allegedly received from Media World in exchange for granting them the marketing and media rights of El Salvador’s selection for the qualifying games for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Vásquez was chairman of the Fesfut Standardization Commission in the period 2009-2010. His extradition was authorized by the Supreme Court of Justice on August 29, 2017, on the condition that he serve the five years in prison that reduced him from his original sentence of eight years for illegal withholding of dues. labor.
The former president of Fesfut was extradited on a commercial flight in the custody of Interpol personnel from El Salvador to be handed over to US authorities, according to judicial sources.