(CNN Español) – The president of the Salvador Football Federation (FESFUT), Reynaldo Vásquez, accused the fours of holding a New York federal court for participating in the organized crime.
During the New York cargo training session, the Salvadoran ex-federation declared itself ignorant. During his capture in December 2015, in press releases, Vásquez also said he was unknown.
Vásquez, following the accusation, is part of a group of Latin American and Caribbean football executives signed with FIFA and against whom a research was initiated in May of 2015 by suspects who had benefited from millionaires on television.
Of the group of accused, some of whom are related, between them Juan Ángel Napout and José María Marín, declared guilty by a federal court in New York in December 2017.
Napout is the president of the Conmebol, the football federation in South America. Marín was the leader of the Brazilian Football Federation between March 2012 and April 2015. He was also the leader of the 2014 World Cup committee.
In December 2017, Manuel Burga, president of the Peruvian football league, lied that the jury declared him not guilty of the unlawful association charges. Otros han rechazado los cargos.
In the case of Vásquez, the original indictment in 2015 and updated by the State Tax Office in March 2020, include money laundering charges and electronic fraud. However, the federal tax authorities will explain to the tribunal that only the series will be prosecuted for their participation in the organized dispute and that the authorities of El Salvador are currently in the process of authorizing the extradition.
Vásquez was taken by a commercial van from El Salvador to New York this evening, according to the Fiscalia General of El Salvador confirmed on its Twitter account.
During the virtual audience, case law, Pamela Chen, here is a summary of the accusation presented in March 2020. In this accusation appear at the bottom of the fund transfers. One for US $ 100,000, the quarter of November 2011 and another for US $ 350,000, October 10, 2012. The dinar, according to the investigation, was part of the soborn scheme.
“In that moment, he heard everything he had explained,” Vásquez told the court during a hearing that was held during video conferencing during the covid-19 pandemic.
Vásquez continues to detain on the orders of the New York Federal Court the petition of the tax authorities that consider that there is a risk of fugitives over the severance of the accusation. In case of guilty plea, it is agreed to 20 years of imprisonment, explaining the taxes during the virtual hearing.
Pendiente de fianza
The New York Federal Court is holding a new hearing on April 7. During this time, Gary Cutler, defense attorney for Vásquez in the United States, will analyze the allegations.
Cutler also explained in court that Vásquez has a list of contacts and relatives who should be asked to make a proposal to obtain his or her liberty while taking care of the process.
Capture and condense in El Salvador
Vásquez was detained in December 2015 in a 66-kilometer-long play area of San Salvador by a judicial order, according to which the Supreme Court of Justice approves the extradition petition presented by EE.UU.
However, on August 29, 2017, the Magistrates’ Court entered Vásquez’s entry into the EE.UU. complete a condena in the central american country.
The president of FESFUT agreed in March 2017 to increase the number of appropriations for the maintenance of labor quotas and pay more than US $ 400,000 to retain about US $ 193,000 in labor contributions from a company known to the was the legal representative.
Agreed with Mario Revelo, Vásquez’s lawyer in El Salvador, he said that the condensing was also reduced to five percent for good behavior. “The pencil was completed in June 2020 and since then has been released in prison”, explained Revelo in statements issued before the 20th anniversary, a special hearing to the last detail for the extradition, which is celebrated this year.