Swiss agree to extradite ex-Fifa official to US

Switzerland’s justice ministry has granted a US request to extradite a former assistant to Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb in the Fifa bribery case.

Swiss agree to extradite ex-Fifa official to US
Fri, 09 Oct, 2015 - 14:44

Switzerland’s justice ministry has granted a US request to extradite a former assistant to Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb in the Fifa bribery case.

Costas Takkas, the former general secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association, was among seven officials arrested on May 27 in a dawn raid at a luxury hotel in Zurich, two days before the Fifa presidential election.

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