The appeal trial of the President of the PSG and Bein Media Group and the former Secretary-General of the FIFA, paid at first instance in 2020 of the head of “unfair management”, is held from Monday 7 to Thursday. March.
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Between two trips, the Qatari Nasser Al-Khelaïfi had to reserve a niche of forty-eight hours in his overloaded agenda to return to the Swiss Criminal Court (TPF) Swiss Bellinzone, capital of Ticino canton. Acknowledged in the first instance, in October 2020, the chief “instigation with aggravated unflawed management”, the boss of Paris-Saint-Germain and Bein Media Group should be present at the TPF Monday 7 and Tuesday, March 8, during his trial On appeal, supposed to end Thursday, March 10th.
m. Al-Khelaïfi, 48, will appear alongside French Jérôme Valcke, former Secretary General of the International Football Federation (FIFA), also acquitted in 2020 from the head of “aggravated unfair management” as part of the open criminal procedure In 2017, by the Public Ministry of Confederation (MPC), against the two men, for the granting of television rights of the Football World Cups 2026 and 2030 to the Qatarie Bein Sports chain.
In first instance, the parquet was required twenty-eight months of partial suspension against Mr. Al-Khelaïfi: Qatari was accused of having acquired, in December 2013, a villa in Sardinia for 5 million euros In order to make it available to Mr. Valcke, eager to buy this villa.
The MPC reproached Mr Valcke, 61, for receiving Mr. Khelaïfi benefits from between 1.4 million and 2.3 million euros. To know “the exclusive use of Villa Bianca”, from March 2014 to September 2015, as well as a reimbursement of 500,000 euros after payment of a deposit for this property. French was accused of having caused injury to FIFA.
“Corruption arrangement”
For the investigators, he did it “in return” of the grant to the Qataris al-Jazira groups and bein media group of media rights in the Middle East and North Africa for the World Cups 2026 and 2030 . A commercial contract was signed by FIFA in this regard, in April 2014, compared with 480 million dollars (432 million euros). In October 2020, the TPF considered that “no element did not remember that FIFA could have concluded more economically advantageous contracts for the aforementioned media rights”.
In another file related to the allocation of television rights, Mr. Valcke had been relaxed in 2020 from the head of corruption and sentenced to a completed fine for “false in titles”. It was “required to restore” € 1.75 million to FIFA, including almost 500,000 euros for the villa. If the 2020 TPF decision has rang as in disadvantage for the MPC, which appealed, like MM. Al-Khelaïfi and Valcke, the motivated judgment of the magistrates constituted a severe charge against the defendants.
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