One of the two soccer officials arrested in Zurich last week in the FIFA corruption case spent only five nights in jail before agreeing to extradition to the United States.
Juan Ángel Napout, the president of Conmebol, the South American soccer confederation, is among 16 new defendants in the United States’ world soccer corruption case, according to charges unsealed last week. He is expected to be collected by an American police escort and brought to the United States within 10 days, Swiss authorities announced on Tuesday. Once he arrives, he will be arraigned in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.