Story highlights U.S. Embassy has submitted formal extradition requests for seven officials arrested in May

The Swiss justice department will rule on the requests within a few weeks, it says

(CNN) U.S. officials have requested the extradition of seven high-ranking FIFA officials arrested in Switzerland in May. They are suspected of taking bribes worth over $100 million in connection with soccer tournaments.

The seven were detained in a dawn raid on a hotel on the eve of FIFA's World Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, on the basis of a request from the United States.

Among them is UK citizen Jeffrey Webb, a FIFA vice president and head of CONCACAF, the soccer governing body for North America and the Caribbean.

Another is Jose Maria Marin, head of the Brazilian Football Federation from March 2012 to April 2015. Marin also served as head of the 2014 World Cup committee. The 83-year-old was also governor of Sao Paulo for a short period in the 1980s.

The arrests at the heart of soccer's governing body shocked the wider world of football and were followed within days by the announcement by newly reelected FIFA president Sepp Blatter that he would resign.

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