VANCOUVER: Suspe­nded FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb, already facing charges in football’s global bribery scandal, has now been charged in a healthcare fraud case in his native Cayman Islands, local media reported on Friday.

Cayman authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Webb and are expected to seek his extradition, reported Cayman 27 television.

Webb is currently detai­ned in Switzerland after being arrested and indicted by the FBI last month and already faces an extradition request from the US in relation to the soccer corruption charges brought by the Department of Justice.

Webb was one of seven powerful figures arrested in Zurich on May 27 two days before FIFA’s annual congress, stunning world football.

Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2015

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