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Costa Rica opens probe into arrested FIFA official Eduardo Li

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rican authorities said on Wednesday they had opened an investigation into Eduardo Li, one of the FIFA executives arrested in Zurich on suspicion of corruption, adding that its prosecutors were in contact with U.S. law enforcement.

Li, the president of Costa Rica's soccer federation, is one of seven FIFA executives who were arrested in a hotel in Zurich on Wednesday after they were named in a U.S. Department of Justice corruption investigation.

(Reporting by Enrique Pretel)

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