BERN: Eduardo Deluca, a former secretary-general of South American football confederation CONMEBOL, has been fined by the Swiss judicial authorities for his money-laundering.

The Argentinian was ordered to pay a penalty of 5,000 Swiss francs ($5,568) plus a suspended fine of CHF 18,000 in connection with bribery arising out of television and marketing rights. for South American competitions, in particular the Copa Libertadores.

Deluca, 79, reportedly admitted the charges of money laundering through several bank accounts in Switzerland.

He is serving a life ban from football imposed by world federation FIFA after the revelations of the United States’ Justice Department’s FIFAGate investigation.

In October 2020 CONMEBOL stated that it had reclaimed $37m from the Swiss bank accounts of Deluca and the late former CONMEBOL president Nicolas Leoz.

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