Ronaldo Vasquez, the former football boss from El Salvador, has been extradited to the United States. The director, who headed the National Football Association between 2009 and 2010, was indicted in 2015 in the United States in connection with a large-scale corruption case at the FIFA World Cup.
Vasquez will be tried in court in Brooklyn. He has been accused of taking bribes in selling television rights to World Cup qualifiers. Vasquez was one of sixteen suspects in a $ 200 million bribery case. Many of them are already guilty. Juan Engel Nabout, former president of the Paraguayan Football Association, has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
In October 2019, FIFA suspended Vasquez from all football-related activities. In 2017, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for domestic labor fraud. As the owner of a large bed business, Vasquez would have paid the lowest premiums for more than two hundred of his employees over the years.
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