The two FIFA officials detained in Zurich on Thursday on suspicion of corruption are vice-presidents from Paraguay and Honduras.

“The two who were arrested are Juan Angel Napout from Paraguay and Alfredo Hawit Banegas from Honduras,” a senior FIFA official, who did not want to be named, told AFP.

Napout is South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) president while Hawit heads the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).

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The Swiss government earlier announced two unnamed FIFA officials had been detained on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes.

“The high-ranking FIFA officials are alleged to have taken the money in return for selling marketing rights in connection with football tournaments in Latin America, as well as World Cup qualifying matches,” a Swiss justice ministry statement said.

The corruption scandal rocking FIFA since May has resulted in long-time president Sepp Blatter being suspended and under criminal investigation in Switzerland, while Michel Platini – once seen as his likely successor – is also suspended and facing a life ban.

In a dramatic widening of the scandal, Swiss police arrested Napout and Hawit in a dawn raid.

The new arrests happened as FIFA’s leadership gathered in Zurich for talks on a reform package aimed at repairing its tainted global image.

Swiss police entered the five-star Baur au Lac hotel around 6:00am (local time).

The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ), as the ministry is known, said it had ordered Zurich police to detain the two “based on arrest requests submitted by the United States Department of Justice on 29 November 2015”.

FIFA vowed to “continue to cooperate fully with the US investigation as permitted by Swiss law as well as with the investigation being led by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General”.

The meeting, and the arrests, come on the fifth anniversary of the 2010 vote that controversially awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

That decision set off a cascade of allegations of corruption and skulduggery.