国产精品99一区二区三_免费中文日韩_国产在线精品一区二区_日本成人手机在线

Ex-S. American soccer chief given 9 years in prison

Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-30 05:33:10|Editor: yan
Video PlayerClose

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Juan Angel Napout, the ex-president of the South American football confederation CONMEBOL, was sentenced to nine years in prison on corruption charges in New York on Wednesday.

Napout, 60, of Paraguay, was found guilty of accepting 10.5 million U.S. dollars in bribes to award television rights in what prosecutors said was a vast network of bribes and kickbacks across South American football.

According to a statement from the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue, Napout was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen in Brooklyn, New York, who also ordered him to forfeit 3.3 million dollars, and issued a fine of 1 million dollars.

"Napout's conviction, as well as the successful prosecution of other high-level soccer officials, has struck at the core of corruption in soccer and underscores the need for continued vigilance against fraud and bribery in the sport," Donoghue said in the statement.

Napout had served as the head of the national soccer federation in Paraguay and, later, of CONMEBOL. He was found guilty by a jury last December of racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy.

Napout was tried alongside Jose Maria Marin, 86, a former head of Brazil's soccer federation, who was convicted last week and sentenced to four years in prison.

More than 40 people and companies have been charged in the investigation, which began with dramatic arrests at a hotel in Zurich near FIFA's headquarters in 2015.

TOP STORIES
EDITOR’S CHOICE
MOST VIEWED
EXPLORE XINHUANET
010020070750000000000000011105521374290521
主站蜘蛛池模板: 监利县| 澜沧| 买车| 武胜县| 龙南县| 镇原县| 忻城县| 托克托县| 石林| 乌兰县| 保德县| 周口市| 临西县| 策勒县| 巩义市| 阳东县| 丹巴县| 兰西县| 海口市| 天等县| 星子县| 龙川县| 平利县| 盐城市| 错那县| 湛江市| 永川市| 疏勒县| 天气| 漠河县| 辽阳县| 林周县| 巴楚县| 大洼县| 安溪县| 丹巴县| 临清市| 石泉县| 耒阳市| 恭城| 米脂县|