Rafael Esquivel, Venezuela's national soccer federation president, attends a news conference in Caracas May 10, 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Tuesday it will not seek the extradition of former national football federation boss Rafael Esquivel, who is detained in Switzerland as part of a probe into corruption in world governing body FIFA.
Esquivel, 69, who was also a member of the executive committee of the South American Football Confederation, was arrested in May last year in Zurich with six other football executives on U.S. arrest warrants.
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