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Eugene

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Mon Apr 15, 2019, 10:42 PM Apr 2019

Jose Maria Marin: Former Brazilian FA boss banned from football for life

Source: BBC

Jose Maria Marin: Former Brazilian FA boss banned from football for life

15 April 2019 Football

Former Brazilian Football Confederation president Jose Maria Marin has been banned from all football-related activities for life.

The 86-year-old was found guilty of bribery after an investigation by Fifa's ethics committee.

The governing body also fined him one million Swiss francs (£760,000).

Marin was one of seven Fifa officials arrested at a hotel in Zurich in May 2015, and was sentenced to four years in a US jail for corruption in 2018.

He was convicted of accepting bribes from sports marketing companies in exchange for contracts to broadcast tournaments such as the Copa America.


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