The Swiss public prosecutor’s office is not weakening. On the contrary. Despite the snub suffered at first instance in the fall of 2020, the Public Ministry of the Confederation (MPC) pronounced, this Tuesday afternoon in Bellinzona (Switzerland), equivalent requisitions before the Court of Appeal of the Federal Criminal Court (TPF).
After four hours of indictment, with a slide show, the MPC respectively requested a “custodial sentence” of 28 months against Nasser al-Khelaïfi and one of 35 months against Jérôme Valcke . Without specifying whether this was accompanied by a partial reprieve or not. Thirty months’ imprisonment was required for the third defendant, the Greek Konstantinos Nteris.
At first instance, the Swiss public prosecutor’s office had already demanded 28-month prison sentences, this time partially suspended, against Al-Khelaïfi, president of beIN Media and PSG, tried for “instigation to aggravated unfair management”, as well as three years of imprisonment, also partially suspended, against Valcke, former secretary general of FIFA, accused of “repeated aggravated unfair management” in this section. The two men were finally acquitted by the TPF in the fall of 2020.
The judgment, given the complexity of the case, will be deliberated and should be pronounced within a few weeks.
