Jorge Luis Arzuaga, a former Swiss banker, pleaded guilty for money laundering and admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes to late former FIFA executive and Argentina soccer federation president Julio Grondona.
Per The United States Department of Justice, Arzuaga, an Argentine national, worked as a private banker at two institutions in Switzerland and assisted a sports marketing company in paying bribes to high-ranking soccer officials. It is believed that the bribes were for television rights for soccer competitions. The DOJ's report does not identify the recipient of the funds as Grondona, who died in 2014, but many reports have stated that it is Grondona, the former right-hand man to former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, both long linked with corruption inside the sport's world governing body.