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Ex-CONMEBOL official hands himself into police

Xinhua, December 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Jose Luis Meiszner, the former secretary-general of South American football confederation CONMBEOL, has turned himself into Argentine police after being charged with corruption, local media said on Wednesday.

Meiszner was among 16 people named in a US justice department indictment last week for allegedly accepting bribes to award marketing and media rights.

Television channel TN said Meiszner arrived unsolicited at a police station in Quilmes, on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Meiszner resigned as CONMEBOL secretary general on December 4.

His surrender came two days after CONMEBOL president Juan Angel Napout agreed to be extradited to the US to answer bribery charges. Endit