ASUNCION (Paraguay), July 21 — Former South American football boss Juan Angel Napout, who is serving a nine-year corruption sentence in a US prison, has contracted coronavirus, his lawyer said yesterday. “He could barely speak when his wife called him. His throat was very sore” and he was...
Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout was sentenced in 2017 in relation to the 'Fifagate' corruption scandal. — Reuters pic
“He could barely speak when his wife called him. His throat was very sore” and he was struggling to breath, Napout’s lawyer Jose Gonzalez told radio 730 AM. The news comes just over a week after a federal judge in New York rejected for the second time a request from Napout to be released to house arrest on compassionate grounds.Napout’s lawyer said 70 inmates in the Miami prison where he is being held have contracted the coronavirus, as well as seven members of staff.
A month later his request to be released on bail pending appeal was also rejected on the grounds he was a flight risk.
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