Thursday, November 24, 2016

Peru agrees to extradite former soccer federation head to U.S. (Reuters)

Former Peruvian soccer federation president Manuel Burga is escorted by police at Peru's judicial office, following his arrest in Lima, December 7, 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

Peru agreed to extradite the former head of the country's soccer federation to the United States to face criminal conspiracy charges in a far-reaching inquiry into corruption at the heart of the sport's governing body FIFA. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski approved Manuel Burga's extradition in a resolution published on Thursday in the official gazette, El Peruano, five months after a Peruvian court found that the request from a New York court was substantiated. Burga headed the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) for a dozen years through 2014, when the federation blocked him from running for a fourth term as criticism grew over his management.


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