FIFA bans Paraguay's Napout for life
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E-mail Xinhua, September 13, 2019
Former South American football official Juan Angel Napout has received a life ban for corruption, FIFA said on Thursday.
Football's global governing body said its ethics committee had found the 61-year-old Paraguayan guilty of bribery from 2012 to 2015. He was barred from all football-related activities for life and also fined one million Swiss francs (around 1.01 million U.S. dollars).
"The investigation proceedings against Mr Napout referred to bribery schemes ... in relation to his role in awarding contracts to companies for the media and marketing rights to CONMEBOL competitions," FIFA said in a statement.
The announcement came almost two years after Napout was convicted in a Brooklyn court of racketeering and corruption charges as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe launched by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Napout, a former FIFA vice president, served as leader of South American football body CONMEBOL from August 2014 until his arrest in December 2015. In August 2018 he was sentenced to nine years in jail.
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