Former CONMEBOL boss Napout returns to Paraguay after 5 years in US prison
Juan Angel Napout, the former president of soccer’s South American governing body, is received by relatives and friends after landing at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, July 7, 2023. Napout was released from a federal prison in Miami and deported to Paraguay after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence for a Dec. 22, 2017 conviction on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. Credit: AP/Jorge Saenz
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Disgraced former CONMEBOL president Juan Ángel Napout arrived in his native Paraguay on Friday after he was released from a United States federal prison and deported.
The 65-year-old Napout, with his wife, carried a Paraguayan flag at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in the capital Asuncion.
Napout, also a former FIFA vice-president, served 5 1/2 years of a nine-year sentence in Miami after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy.
Napout was banned by FIFA in 2019 after its ethics committee found him guilty of bribery in years that overlapped him bossing Paraguay's soccer body from 2007-14 and South America's governing body from 2014-15.
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