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Paraguay's congress ends CONMEBOL immunity amid world soccer scandal

(Adds details of CONMEBOL headquarters, world soccer scandal)

ASUNCION, June 11 (Reuters) - Paraguay's congress on Thursday approved a measure withdrawing immunity from the Asuncion headquarters of South America's CONMEBOL soccer confederation, some of whose officials were charged with corruption by U.S. prosecutors last month.

CONMEBOL's headquarters, on a 40-hectare site near Paraguay's capital city, had enjoyed immunity from search since the office was opened in 1997.

The measure ending that immunity is expected to be signed into law by President Horacio Cartes.

A draft bill to remove the immunity was put to Congress in late May, days after U.