Severe sentences issued in Algerian Football Federation corruption case
On Tuesday, the Economic and Financial Penal Pole of Sidi M'hamed delivered its rulings in the corruption case involving the Algerian Football Federation (FAF). Out of 19 defendants, former federation presidents Kheireddine Zetchi and Charaf-Eddine Amara received 8-year prison sentences and a fine of one million Algerian dinars each. Djahid Zefizef was sentenced to 6 years in prison with a similar fine. Former secretaries general and the former administrative director were handed 3-year prison terms, a sentence also given to the former national team manager and several executive board members. The remaining sentences for other defendants ranged from acquittal to varying prison terms.