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The correspondent for the Al-Arabiya news channel said that the trial session of Qatari Nasser Al-Khulaifi has been suspended and will resume in the afternoon, indicating that Al-Khulaifi and his co-defendant may be sentenced to 5 years in prison.
The channel stated that the trial of Al-Khulaifi in a corruption scandal in Switzerland could continue until September 25.
France’s Jerome Falk, former secretary general of the FIFA International Federation, Qatari Nasser Al-Khalifi, president of French Paris Saint-Germain, and a group of “be in sports” Qatar Airways was previously brought before the Swiss judiciary to be tried in a new chapter of sports corruption cases, and they were indicted in a corruption case related to the granting of television broadcasting rights for the World Cup finals. World of 2026 and 2030..
The spotlight is on Falk, the right-hand man of former Swiss International Federation President Joseph Blatter, who is concerned about two separate cases on television rights, and Falk faced a prison sentence of up to five years in case of that he was found guilty..
Falk was accused of facilitating the concession to the media group “BN” of the rights of the 2026 and 2030 World Cups to the Middle East and North Africa region, in exchange for “unjustified benefits” from Al-Khalifi..
According to the complaint, it was related to a meeting that took place on October 24, 2013 at the French headquarters of the network. be in sports The Qatari woman claims that Al-Khalifa promised the French to buy a luxurious villa on the island of Sardinia, giving him the right to use it exclusively, while the Qatari denied the accusations.
