Police in northern Italy say Alejandro Burzaco, an Argentinian businessman who was indicted by US authorities in connection with the Fifa corruption case, has turned himself in.

Alejandro Burzaco was added to Interpol’s most-wanted list on 3 June 2015. Photograph: AP

Giuseppe Tricarico, a police official in Bolzano, said Burzaco gave himself up to authorities on Tuesday morning. He was with an Italian and Spanish-speaking lawyer.

Tricarico said Burzaco was in a jail cell pending a hearing later on Tuesday that would confirm the arrest, as is the procedure in Italy. He said Burzaco had been “searched for across the world” after being named in the US indictment.

US prosecutors say the 50-year-old, along with fellow Argentinians Hugo Jinkis, 70, and his son Mariano Jinkis, 40, conspired to win and keep hold of lucrative media rights contracts from regional football federations through payment of bribes. The whereabouts of the father and son are unknown.

The Argentinian judge who ordered the arrest of the three men on 28 May said at the time that he did not know if they were in the country.

Burzaco was president of Argentininian sports marketing firm Torneos y Competencias (TyC, also known as Torneos), while Hugo and Mariano Jinkis are controlling principals of Full Play, another sports media and marketing business with its headquarters in Argentina.