Guatemalan judge arrested on Disney cruise ship on soccer bribery charges – CNBC

Trujillo, the secretary general of the Guatemalan soccer federation, was “purportedly dispensing justice by day while allegedly soliciting bribes and selling his influence within FIFA,” Lynch said.

The indictment charged him with soliciting and accepting two bribe payments from Media World, an affiliate of Spanish media company Imagina Group. One payment was a “six-figure bribe” to be split among Trujillo and two other Guatemalans for media and marketing rights for 2018 World Cup qualifier matches, the indictment said.

The two other men, Brayan Jimenez and Rafael Salguero, were also indicted. Jimenez has served as president of Guatemala’s soccer federation, and Salguero is a former FIFA executive committee member.

Guatemala’s prosecutor’s office said it had received an order from the foreign ministry to proceed with the extradition of Jimenez to the United States, and had released an arrest warrant for him. Journalists gathered outside the headquarters of the soccer federation, where they believed he was holed up.

The second payment was a $200,000 bribe that Trujillo and Jimenez split in exchange for media and marketing rights to 2022 World Cup qualifier matches, the indictment said. Meetings about the bribes took place in Miami.

At a meeting in Chicago on July 9, weeks after a first round of soccer-related arrests, Trujillo openly discussed how he hid the bribe payments, the indictment said. Trujillo said at the meeting “that he did not think the payment would appear suspicious, as a sham contract had been created,” the court document said.