FIFA VPs from Paraguay, Honduras arrested: FIFA official

The two FIFA officials detained in Zurich today on suspicion of corruption are vice presidents Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, a senior FIFA official said.
"The two who were arrested are Juan Angel Napout from Paraguay and Alfredo Hawit Banegas from Honduras," the FIFA official, who did not want to be named, told AFP.
Napout is president of the South American Football Confederation while Hawit is president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football.
The Swiss government earlier announced that two unnamed FIFA officials were detained on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes.

"The high-ranking FIFA officials are alleged to have taken the money in return for selling marketing rights in connection with football tournaments in Latin America, as well as World Cup qualifying matches," a Swiss justice ministry statement said.
The ministry did not name the pair but said it would do so later in the day.

About 40 individuals and two companies now face charges
in the United States over more than USD 200 million in bribes paid for television and marketing contracts.
Separately, Swiss police have been investigating FIFA's management and the award of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and 2022 event to Qatar. French prosecutors indicated this week they could also look into the Qatar World Cup award.

Infantino became president in February in a bid to stabilise the FIFA administration and vowed to lead world football into a new era of "transparency" and "honesty".
But he already faces scrutiny. FIFA today denied German media reports that a formal investigation had been launched into the new president.
Die Welt newspaper said Infantino had improperly ordered the destruction of the minutes of a FIFA executive committee meeting held at last month's congress in Mexico city.
FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer said the allegations were baseless.
"The email exchange that makes mention of the deletion of audio files refers to a copy of the original audio file of the meeting that was improperly stored on a local drive," she said.

"This mention does not refer to the officially archived audio file. That file exists and is properly saved at FIFA."
A spokesman for the ethics committee's investigatory arm, Roman Geiser, told AFP that "there are no formal proceedings going on against Mr. Infantino".
FIFA officials have not discounted however that there is a possibility of an official inquiry.
Die Welt had said FIFA's ethics commission could impose a 90 day suspension on Infantino over the issue.