2023-06-29 21:41:27
While he was in principle to be imprisoned until August 24, 2024 according to the sentence pronounced by a New York court, the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout will be released on July 5. “US Judge Pamela Chen ordered that the sentence be considered served on July 5,” said the former leader’s sister, Virginia Napout. The judge considers that the former president of the South American Football Confederation is eligible for “compassionate release”.
Sentenced for receiving ten million bribes
According to his lawyers, Napout lost one eye to illness while incarcerated and is at risk of losing the other. His defenders asked that he be operated on or that, failing that, he benefit from a “compassionate release” to be able to be treated in Paraguay, which the judge granted him. His sister claims that he was “taken to the hospital (four times), but only for examinations”.
The Paraguayan was sentenced for receiving ten million dollars in bribes in exchange for the granting of television broadcasting rights to matches. He was arrested in Switzerland on December 3, 2015, then extradited to the United States and placed under house arrest in Florida until his trial in 2018. Twenty leaders were tried under FIFAgate, which shook football from of 2015.
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