The former football manager was taken into custody by the El Salvador Interpol on a commercial flight and handed over to US authorities.
The former president of the Salvadoran Football Association, Reynaldo Alan Vásquez, was extradited to the United States this day to answer before a district court for electronic fraud, a criminal association for money laundering and money laundering, the office of the Attorney General.
The extradition was approved by the Fourteenth Peace Court, after it was delayed twice because the authorities of the United States Department of Justice and the Directorate of Migration had failed to provide documentation such as the plane ticket, the date of the Covid-19 test for Vásquez, the route that he would follow on American soil; among other things.
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This documentation was presented last Monday and, according to judicial sources, was defined next Friday as the date of his extradition.
The U.S. Justice Department’s accusation was derived from the alleged bribe Vásquez allegedly received from Media World company in exchange for granting the El Salvador team’s marketing and media rights to the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
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Vásquez chaired the Fesfut Standardization Committee from 2009-2010. His extradition was approved by the Supreme Court on August 29, 2017, on the condition that he serve the five-year sentence that reduced him from his original eight-year sentence for illegally withholding work quotas.
According to judicial sources, the former president of Fesfut was extradited on a commercial flight into custody by Interpol personnel from El Salvador to be handed over to US authorities.