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Brazil's Jose Maria Marin to pay €9m for Trump Tower house arrest - report

Former Brazil federation president Jose Maria Marin will pay 40 million Brazilian Reals ($10m or €9m) to be transferred and kept under house arrest in his Manhattan apartment as he awaits a ruling for his alleged part in FIFA's corruption and bribery scandal, according to a report in Brazil.

Marin was arrested in conjunction with the U.S. Justice Department's case against past and present members and business associates of the world governing body last May, and has been held in Zurich, Switzerland ever since.

According to an Estado de S. Paulo report, Marin has engineered a deal with U.S. officials that will see him placed on house arrest at his Trump Tower dwelling, with the hefty payment acting as bail.

Per the terms of the agreement, the paper goes on to say Marin would have a restricted radius from which he could travel from his Central Park residence, with a return to Brazil improbable as the justice department investigates his alleged role in bribery payments for benefits in marketing and television rights for the Copa do Brazil and Copa America tournaments.

Marin's reported deal comes during a week of full of activity relating to the DOJ's case.

Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb, who was indicted in a New York court this past July, and was released on $10m bond. Similar to the Marin proposal, as a condition of Webb's bond, the former CONCACAF chief must reside within 20 miles of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn and is paying for electronic monitoring and home detention.

On Tuesday, FIFA's ethics committee banned former CONCACAF president Jack Warner from football-related activity for life following an investigation into the bidding contest for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

On the same day, Swiss authorities agreed to an American request to extradite former Costa Rican football federation president Eduardo Li.

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