Wednesday 3 June 2015

Ex-FIFA officials on Interpol most wanted list

Top L-R: Rafael Esquivel, Jose Maria Marin, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figuredo. Bottom L-R: Nicolas Leoz, Jack Warner, Jeffrey Webb, Julio Rocha. Warner and Leoz are on the most wanted list of Interpol.
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Four heads of sports marketing companies have also been put on the list.
All six are wanted by US authorities investigating more than $150 million of bribes paid to football officials.

It named Warner‚ Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay‚ Alejandro Burzaco‚ Hugo Jinkis and Bariano Jinkis of Argentina‚ and Jose Marguilies of Brazil as the other five placed on red notice.
The statement said: “Red notices are one of the ways in which Interpol informs its member countries that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authority and seeks the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful action”.
Warner, a former FIFA vice president, is in Trinidad and Tobago.
Leoz, an executive member, is reportedly under house arrest in his native Paraguay.
RDM News Wire


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