Rafael Esquivel attends a news conference in Caracas May 10, 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss court rejected an appeal from an executive of world football body FIFA held in prison as part of a corruption probe to be freed on grounds of ill health, fearing he might abscond.
Lawyers for Venezuela's Rafael Esquivel, 69, had asked the Federal Court's appeals chamber to release him.
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