18:25 18/06/2015
Buenos Aires - Two Argentine businessmen wanted in the United
States in a FIFA bribery case have turned themselves in to authorities.
The
official news agency Telam reported Thursday that Hugo Jinkis and son
Mariano presented themselves at a federal courthouse in Buenos Aires.
Telam reported that the men and their lawyers stated their intention to
fight a U.S. extradition order and requested house arrest rather than
jail while they do so.
An
official at Judge Claudio Bonadio's office confirmed that the men had
turned themselves in, but declined to be cited by name, the norm for
Argentine judicial authorities. Calls to the offices of their lawyers
were not answered.
U.S. prosecutors say that the men were part of a
multimillion-dollar bribery scheme for the rights to broadcast Copa
America games.
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