Suspended Guatemalan judge granted release on bond in U.S. football case


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A suspended Guatemalan judge who was arrested last month as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption in football's world governing body FIFA won the right to be released from jail on Thursday on a $4 million (3 million pounds) bond.

Héctor Trujillo, 62, was secretary general of the Guatemalan football federation and a Constitutional Court judge until his Dec. 4 arrest while aboard a Disney cruise ship docked in Florida.

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