The president of Chile’s ANFP national football association Sergio Jadue has gone to the United States to talk to the FBI as part of its ongoing probe into corruption at soccer governing body FIFA, media reports said yesterday.

Local police had served Jadue a subpoena on Friday as part of what the ANFP said was an investigation into how it allocates salaries, hours after he announced he would take a 30-day leave for medical reasons.

“The trip is confirmed. He travelled to Miami last night,” an ANFP spokesman told Reuters yesterday, without providing details about why Jadue travelled.

“He has a special permission for a 30-day medical leave and Sergio Jadue continues to be the ANFP’s president.”

The spokesman added that the organisation would make an official statement today. Local media had earlier reported that Jadue had resigned from his role at the head of the ANFP.

Under the flashes of cameras and with police escorts, Jadue boarded a flight in Santiago late on Tuesday night, headed for New York via Miami, said newspaper La Tercera yesterday.

A spokeswoman for the Chilean police force declined to comment.

South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL and the sport’s world governing body FIFA are reeling from a corruption scandal.

Several leading directors were indicted in May in a probe led by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation into allegations of bribery, money-laundering and wire fraud.

A majority of the 14 FIFA officials and sports marketing executives indicted by the FBI were from South America.

Chile newspapers La Tercera and El Mercurio quoted unnamed ANFP officials as saying that Jadue was planning to collaborate with the FBI investigation.

“He is due back May 10. Jadue is travelling as a protected informant of US justice,” El Mercurio cited one official as saying.