ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- Paraguay's president has signed a law repealing the immunity that the headquarters of South America's soccer confederation enjoyed for nearly two decades.
Thursday's action by Horacio Cartes is part of the fallout from a U.S. investigation into an alleged bribery scheme in FIFA.
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted 14 soccer and business officials in May. One is Paraguay's Nicolas Leoz, a former FIFA executive committee member. He was also a former president of the confederation, known as CONMEBOL.
Leoz lobbied Paraguay's legislators for the 1997 law making the headquarters exempt from legal intervention.