• Jack Warner and Nicolás Leoz wanted by Interpol • Four other corporate executives wanted by organisation

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Interpol has issued red notices, otherwise known as international wanted persons alerts, for the former Fifa executives Jack Warner and Nicolás Leoz as well as four sports marketing executives for charges including racketeering conspiracy and corruption.

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Warner, the Trinidad and Tobago national and former Fifa vice-president, and Leoz, the former Fifa executive committee member and Conmebol president, have been highly controversial figures within the world game in recent years.

A statement said: “At the request of US authorities, Interpol Red Notices – or international wanted persons alerts – have been issued for two former Fifa officials and four corporate executives for charges including racketeering conspiracy and corruption.”

Warner was among 14 Fifa officials and other corporate executives charged by the US justice department last week, with American and Swiss authorities making seven arrests following a dawn raid in Zurich on Wednesday. This week a judge in Paraguay reportedly placed Leoz under house arrest for his alleged role in the corruption scandal.

Others named on the wanted person alert include four corporate marketing executives. Alejandro Burzaco is an Argentinian national and a controlling principal of Torneos y Competencias, while Hugo Jinkis and Mariano Jinkis, also both Argentinian, are controlling principals of Full Play Group. The other, José Margulies, is Brazilian.

The Interpol statement continued: “Red notices are one of the ways in which Interpol informs its member countries that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authority and seeks the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful action.

“The individuals concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions and Interpol’s role is to assist national police forces in identifying or locating those individuals with a view to their arrest and extradition. A red notice is not an international arrest warrant, and Interpol cannot compel any member country to arrest the subject of a red notice.”