NEW YORK: Guatemala’s former national football chief pleaded not guilty in New York on Wednesday just hours after being extradited from the Central American country over the FIFA corruption scandal rocking world football.

Brayan Jimenez, 61, was placed under house arrest after posting a $1.5 million bond, $75,000 of it in cash. Jimenez who was detained in January in a disheveled state while intoxicated at an apartment in a posh suburb of Guatemala City was extradited to the United States on Tuesday.

Jimenez, an ex-member of FIFA’s Committee for Fair Play and Social Responsibility, stood in the US federal court dressed in a white sweater and blue jeans to answer corruption, money laundering, fraud and embezzlement charges.

His defense lawyer, Justine Harris, entered the plea “not guilty to all charges.”