BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Argentine lawyer for a government-run soccer television programme ran in front of a Buenos Aires train and committed suicide late on Tuesday, hours after being accused in a New York court of receiving bribes, police said.
Jorge Delhon, attorney for the Futbol Para Todos (Soccer for All) programme, received bribes from the end of 2011 to 2014, according to testimony by the former head of sports marketing company Torneos y Competencias, Alejandro Burzaco, as recorded in a court transcript seen by Reuters.
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