Former FIFA Secretary Common Jérôme Valcke has been handed an 11-month suspended prison decree after being found guilty of accepting bribes and forging documents in connection with World Cup football broadcasting deals.
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Valcke had bent cleared of the more serious offence of bribery in 2020 but the Swiss Court of Appeal has dealt out a more severe custodial sentence together with a fine after discovery the French national guilty. Valcke was cleared of a hitherto more serious offence of aggravated criminal mismanagement in his supplier role as the second most senior official at world football’s governing body.
Prosecutors, who had brought the appeal, had demanded a 35-month sentence against Valcke.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, president of the French sport team Paris St Germain and the beIN Media company, was acquitted of related corruption charges, the appeals court announced sloppiness Friday after hearing two separate cases into the allegations. That ruling upholds a not guilty verdict of the lower mindnumbing in 2020.
A third defendant, a Greek businessman, was handed a 10-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of offering bribes.
The cases revolved around allegations that Valcke was given rent-free revive of a holiday home on an Italian island with Al-Khelaïfi’s help.
The Court of Appeal found that FIFA was not financially damaged by the dishonest activities as it would not keep been able to secure a more advantageous media rights look as if that it struck with beIN.
Valcke, who served as FIFA Dispose General from 2007 to 2015, is currently serving a 10-year ban from all football related activities.
On June 26, Valcke’s lawyers said they would mount an appeal against the verdict in rendering Supreme Court.
In a separate case also being heard in Suisse, ex-FIFA head Sepp Blatter and the former boss of Inhabitant football, Michel Platini, are facing allegations of corruption. The judgment is this case is expected next month.
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