A FIFA official arrested in Zurich as part of the corruption scandal has been extradited to the United States, Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice has confirmed.
The man in question is reported to be Jeffrey Webb, the vice president of FIFA and CONCACAF.
A statement from Swiss officials said the FIFA official - one of seven arrested in dawn raids on May 27 - "was handed over to a three-man U.S police escort in Zurich who accompanied him on the flight to New York."
Swiss officials declined to release the man's name when contacted by Press Association Sport but confirmed he had agreed to be extradited last week.
It is understood that Webb, who arrived in the U.S on Wednesday, was the only arrested FIFA official not fighting extradition.
Webb, 50, is accused of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars, and he has already been suspended from football duty by FIFA's ethics committee. He is expected to face the charges in a New York court.
Meanwhile, Cornel Borbely and Hans-Joachim Eckert - the leaders of the two chambers of FIFA's ethics committee - have called for greater transparency allowing them to name people who are under investigation by football's governing body.
They also want to give greater detail around how they arrive at guilty verdicts, even when those cases are still the subject of appeal.
Borbely, who took over from as the head of the investigatory chamber of FIFA's ethics committee in the wake of Michael Garcia's resignation, said: "As it stands, the FIFA code of ethics prevents the names of accused parties within an investigation being disclosed upon request.
"This is inconsistent with state criminal proceedings in Switzerland and Europe, which would provide greater transparency."
Eckert, the chairman of the Ethics Committee's adjudicatory chamber, believes they should be able to justify their decisions immediately.
"This should be regardless of whether or not the football official in question is appealing the decision," he said.
"Where there has been public misinformation, the Ethics Committee must also have the right to offer rectification."
Garcia resigned from his post in December following the handling of his 430-page report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
It emerged last month that Garcia's report is unlikely to be published in full for years.
Source: PA
