The former president of Salvadoran Football Federation (Fesfut) Reynaldo Vásquez He was sentenced this Thursday to 16 months in prison USA after pleading guilty to taking bribes in the so-called case ‘FIFAGate’.
The sentence was handed down by a federal court in Brooklyn (New York)where in recent years dozens of people were involved in the scandal that was discovered at the end of 2015 as a result of an international operation against those responsible for FIFA.
Vasquezwho led the Fesfut between 2009 and 2011, he was arrested in December 2015 at The Savior and, after facing the Justice of his country for another case, he was released in 2021 in USA.
In New YorkThe 66-year-old leader pleaded guilty to criminal association charges and admitted that he and other Salvadoran officials accepted more than $350,000 in bribes from a company in exchange for selling broadcasting rights to national team matches. .
As agreed upon Prosecutor, Vasquez He even agreed to pay $360,000.
“The defendant and his accomplices, motivated by greed, disgraced themselves by lining their pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, at the expense of a good sport, from the soccer federation of The Savior and the community they serve,” the district attorney, Breon Peace.
According to Peacewith this sentence Vasquez He bears responsibility, as did “many other corrupt soccer leaders” who were sentenced in the “FIFAGate” framework.
So far, 27 people and four companies involved have pleaded guilty in this case and there are two more convictions after trials.
Source: La Verdad
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