Former FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke has been sentenced to 11 months in prison, suspended on appeal. The prosecution had demanded a 35-month prison sentence.
Al-Khelaïfi and Valcke were charged with corruption in the distribution of TV rights to several FIFA World Cups after an investigation opened in March 2017.
Valcke could have enriches himself by selling his publishing rights. Some of the rights went to Al-Khelaïfi, who is also the head of the beIN Media group. In return, Valcke was allowed to live for free in a luxury Qatari-owned villa in Sardinia for a while.
A Swiss court had already acquitted Al-Khelaïfi in this case in October 2020. Valcke was later sentenced to a 120-day suspended sentence. However, the prosecutors appealed. The federal court hearing the case again announced the acquittal of the PSG chief and the postponement of Valcke’s prison sentence.
The 61-year-old Frenchman was the right-hand man of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter for many years. In 2015, a massive corruption case within the World Football Federation led to the downfall of nearly all of its leaders, including Valcke and Blatter.
Source: RTL
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