Rome: Italian police said Tuesday that Argentinian businessman Alejandro Burzaco, who has been indicted by US authorities in the FIFA corruption scandal, has turned himself in.

Burzaco, 50, was being held in Bolzano, near Italy's northern border with Switzerland after turning up at a police station with his lawyers. He was being held pending a hearing later in the day on whether he is formally arrested. Burzaco's whereabouts have been a mystery since seven FIFA executives were arrested in Zurich on the eve of a FIFA Congress last week.