7 FIFA officials may be bundled to US for trial

The United State of America has formally written to ask Switzerland to extradite the seven FIFA officials arrested in May for alleged corruption, to the States to face trial.

“On July 1, the U.S. embassy in Bern sent Switzerland formal extradition requests within the timeframe set down in the bilateral extradition treaty,’’ the Federal Office of Justice said in a statement.

The seven officials were arrested in Zurich on May 27, the first day of a FIFA Executive Congress.
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