Juan Ángel Napout, the previous president of soccer’s South American governing physique, CONMEBOL, is to be launched from a federal jail and deported after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence.
Napout was convicted on December 22, 2017, of 1 rely of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, and he was taken into custody that day. He was sentenced to 9 years in and has been held at a low-security federal jail in Miami.
His conviction was upheld in 2020 by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and he had been scheduled for launch on Aug. 9, 2025.
Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, wrote in a letter Thursday to U.S. District Judge Pamela Okay. Chen that the 65-year-old is eligible for launch to a residential reentry heart on July 6.
Peace wrote that Napout is topic to being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ICE “expects to take custody of Mr. Napout upon his release … for the purpose of removing him from the country.”
“ICE has indicated it may also facilitate immediate self-removal, which would entail working with Mr. Napout and his counsel to secure a flight out of the country and working with the Paraguayan consulate to prepare an emergency passport.”
Napout was banned for all times by FIFA in 2019. He was president of the South American governing physique CONMEBOL from August 2014 till December 2015, president of the Paraguayan Football Association from 2007-14 and a member of FIFA’s government committee. He was arrested in Zurich whereas attending FIFA conferences in December 2015.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com