November 25 – Former Peruvian FA chief Manuel Burga is to be extradited to the United States to face criminal conspiracy charges for his alleged role in football’s far-reaching global corruption investigation.
Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has signed off Burga’s extradition five months after a Peruvian court found that the request from a New York court was substantiated.
Burga is one of more than a dozen current and former Latin American soccer chiefs whom US prosecutors have accused of being part of the multimillion-dollar bribery scam. He faces five charges of racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering and is accused of collecting bribes in exchange for advertising and broadcast rights of international matches and tournaments
Burga, who headed the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) through to 2014 when he was blocked from running for a fourth term, denied wrongdoing when he was originally arrested outside his home in Lima in December under an international warrant. He has been in jail ever since.
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