Picture taken on September 3, 2014 showing the president of the Bolivian Football Federation and treasurer of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), Carlos Chavez, speaking to the press in La Paz, Bolivia. Chavez was arrested on Friday in connection with a corruption investigation. The probe, which also extends to other national football managers, accuses Chavez of “alleged corruption in the management of resources,” the public prosecutor said.

Reuters/La Paz, Bolivia
The head of Bolivia’s soccer federation, Carlos Chavez, was arrested on Friday on charges of corruption in the management of finances, the Bolivian public prosecutors office said.
Chavez is also the treasurer of the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL.
Chavez was arrested on suspicion of a scam in the case of a fund set up for the family of a fan who died at an international match in the central Bolivian city of Oruro in 2013, Bolivian state news agency ABI reported.
According to ABI, the fan’s family never received any money from that fund.
The public prosecutors office said it also arrested the Secretary General of the Bolivian federation, Alberto Lozada.
“The charges being investigated are criminal organization, legitimization of illicit profit, the untoward use of influence ... and fraud,” Bolivia’s attorney general Ramiro Guerrero said in a statement.
Guerrero said more than 40 people had testified so far in the course of the investigation, which began on June 1.
Chavez’s lawyer Jaime Tapia called his arrest “shameful”, saying authorities should have listened to him before detaining him.
US and Bolivian authorities were unavailable for immediate comment on whether the arrest had anything to do with the US corruption investigation into world soccer’s governing body FIFA and related organizations, such as CONMEBOL

Maradona faces ex-wife over ‘missing’ $6m

Diego Maradona will go to court next week to face ex-wife Claudia Villafane who he claims is responsible for the disappearance of $6mn from his fortune.
The former Argentina captain believes the money went missing from national and international bank accounts, the Diario Popular newspaper claimed.
The report said that a mediation hearing will be heard on Tuesday in the presence of his former wife and their two daughters, Dalma and Gianinna.
In the public row, which has split the family, Dalma Maradona defended her mother in an interview with radio station, La Once Diez.
“I am the first to say that my mother is the world’s most honest person. I swear by that,” she said.
The 28-year-old hoped that the matter can be settled out of court.
“For the press, it’s a party; for us it is painful.”