PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN president Nasser al-Khelaifi and former Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke went on trial over corruption changes on Monday.
The trial of the pair and Greek marketing executive Dinos Deris in Bellinzona, Switzerland, is expected to last two weeks.
PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi has went on trial over corruption chargesCredit: Reuters
Former Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke is also on trial in SwitzerlandCredit: AFP or licensors
Qatari Al-Khelaifi, also head of broadcaster beIN Media Group, is accused of inciting Valcke to commit “aggravated criminal mismanagement” of TV rights deal.
The court will hear that al-Khelaifi, now a member of Uefa’s executive committee, gave Valcke the use of his luxury villa.
Valcke and Deris face separate accusations of bribery.
The former Fifa chief, banned from football in 2018, is said to have taken more than £1m in kickbacks over rights deals.
Evidence in chief will begin on Tuesday.
Fifa will help fund a global agency to tackle corruption in sport, its president Gianni Infantino said today.
Creating a body like the World Anti-Doping Agency to address financial corruption, match-fixing and the influence of organised crime in sport has been talked about for more than a decade without a detailed proposal.
Infantino said: “We at Fifa are ready to invest in it.”
PSG have also suffered problems on the pitch as well as off it having lost their opening two Ligue 1 games this season.
Three of their players were sent off in the 1-0 defeat against Marseille on Sunday after a huge brawl erupted in injury time.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
