Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, extradited to the United States as part of a massive soccer corruption scandal, is to appear in court later Saturday, federal prosecutors in New York said.

Webb, from the Cayman Islands, is to be arraigned at 2:00 p.m. (1800 GMT) before Judge Vera Scanlon at the United States Courthouse in Brooklyn.

It will be his first US court appearance since his arrest in Switzerland in May as part of a sweeping US investigation into alleged corruption in international football's governing body.
Source: AFP