Ex-FIFA Council member and Mali football chief released from jail

Ex-FIFA Council member and Mali football chief released from jail

A former member of the FIFA Council, Mamoutou Toure, has been released from jail in Mali after almost two years in detention for alleged corruption, Malian media reports said on Wednesday.

Soccer-Ex-FIFA Council member and Mali football chief released from jail

(Reuters) -A former member of the FIFA Council, Mamoutou Toure, has been released from jail in Mali after almost two years in detention for alleged corruption, Malian media reports said on Wednesday. Read full story

Mamoutou Touré had been re-elected head of Malian football in 2023, when he was already incarcerated. He had been charged, along with four other persons, with "injury of public property, forgery and complicity" when he held the position of administrative and financial director of the National Assembly.