A FIFA official indicted by the United States on corruption charges has agreed to be extradited, but not to the United States. Julio Rocha, the former president of the Nicaraguan soccer federation, consented to extradition to Nicaragua, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said Friday.
Mr. Rocha, 64, was among the seven FIFA officials arrested in May in Zurich, where the men had gathered for FIFA’s annual congress. Accused of accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes from sports marketing firms in connection with the sale of media rights to soccer matches, he has been living in a Swiss jail since.