Washington: The organisation that governs football in North and Central America on Thursday announced it had dismissed its president and was placing on leave a top executive who matched the description of a “co-conspirator” in a US corruption sweep against global officials.
The Confederation of North, Central American and the Caribbean Football Association (Concacaf) said it had “provisionally dismissed” its president Jeffrey Webb, who was among 14 top global football and sports marketing executives named as defendants by the US Department of Justice on Wednesday.
Concacaf said in a statement that it had placed its general secretary, Enrique Sanz, on a leave of absence “to begin immediately.”
The indictment issued by federal prosecutors on Wednesday said that “Co-Conspirator #4” was appointed Concacaf’s general secretary in July 2012, after serving as vice-president of Traffic USA, a sports marketing company.
In its Thursday statement, Concacaf described Sanz as its general secretary.
