In the wake of the corruption probe that FIFA has been battling in the last couple of months, Jeffrey Webb, the former Vice President of the worldwide soccer body has now been extradited to the United States after he was arrested in Switzerland on racketeering and bribery charges filed by American prosecutors, according to NBC News.
The Swiss Federal Office of Justice said Thursday that Webb was extradited a day earlier after 50 days of detention.
“He was handed over to a three-man U.S. police escort in Zurich who accompanied him on the flight to New York,” the ministry said in a statement.
Two people familiar with the case, but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it identified the defendant as Webb and confirmed he has been brought to the United States.
Webb, who is from the Cayman Islands, was president of the CONCACAF, soccer’s governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean, and a FIFA vice president at the time of his arrest.
Webb agreed last week to be extradited, unlike six others who are fighting extradition. All seven men were arrested by Swiss federal police at the request of American federal agencies on May 27 at a luxury hotel raid in Zurich. Click here if you missed it!
