ROME/BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Businessman Alejandro Burzaco, one of three Argentines wanted by U.S. prosecutors in the FIFA bribery investigation, surrendered voluntarily to police in northern Italy yesterday, police said.
U.S. prosecutors say Burzaco, 50, along with Hugo Jinkis, 70, and his son Mariano Jinkis, 40, conspired to win and keep lucrative media rights contracts from regional football federations by paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes.
Argentine media reported the father and son were in Argentina but their precise whereabouts were unknown.
Police in the city of Bolzano, Italy, said they arrested Burzaco after he turned himself in at the police station accompanied by his lawyers.
Burzaco was one of nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives indicted in the United States on May 27 on charges of racketeering and corruption, rocking the sport. Swiss police arrested seven past and current officials of world soccer’s governing body FIFA at a luxury hotel in Zurich and they face extradition to the United States.
