The special hearing that will determine when it will be sent to the North American country calling it for corruption of the Selecta’s gambling rights began
Reynaldo Vásquez, the former president of the Salvadoran Football Association (Fesfut), is mandated by US authorities and will be extradited to that country.
The Fourteenth Peace Court today convened a special hearing to establish within a maximum period of 12 days the logistics and security protocol (Covid-19) to be able to send the former director to the North American country.
It was in August 2017 that the extradition of the former president of the Cuscatleca Federation was established, but he was serving a sentence for appropriating tax withholding from employees in a company of which he was the legal representative, Mobilia SA. The case lasted 8 years, reduced for good behavior to 5 that he has already served, but remains in prison pending his extradition.
“This verdict ended on June 7, 2020, but he has not yet regained his liberty precisely because the extradition request to the United States is pending as it is being claimed by the Eastern District Court of New York,” the report said. Isidro Menéndez Judicial Center.
The former director was president of Fesfut but was part of a normalizing committee, established in 2008 and heading the sports institution until 2010. However, since 2015, an investigation has started that has led to the United States’ claim for organized crime, particularly on the issue of corruption at FIFA.
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And it is that the United States Department of Justice is accusing the accused of receiving money from Media World company in exchange for marketing and television rights from the Salvadoran national soccer team from the matches of the qualifying round for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The Media World company began a relationship with Fesfut in October 2009, when both parties signed the first rights transfer contract (which expired in 2013) through Vásquez.
The special hearing was attended by staff from the Anonymous Port Executive Commission (CEPA), the State Department, Interpol and a representative from the U.S. Department of Migration, and the purpose of the hearing is to document the logistics and the date Vásquez will be sent as long as he does not test positive for Coronavirus in the PCR tests.
The parties will meet again on the 20th of this month to determine if all the required documentation and logistics are in order to carry out the transfer of the inmate, which is located in the La Esperanza Penitentiary Center, known as Mariona.
Vásquez was banned for life by FIFA from any activity related to federated football for violating the Code of Ethics.
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“Vásquez Romero was chairman of the Fesfut Normalizing Commission from 2009-2010, he is mandated by the United States Justice for the crime of organized crime criminal association and his extradition has been approved by the full court of the Supreme Court. of El Salvador, on August 29, 2017, which will take effect as the accused has already served the pending sentence in El Salvador for the crime of withholding work quotas, ” the Judiciary Center’s press release said.