US EditionFormer China football chief given life sentence for 'huge' bribery
- The former chairman of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes worth $11 million.
- A crackdown on official graft under President Xi Jinping has led to a string of sports officials being jailed for corruption.
- The sports industry in China, especially football, has been heavily impacted by the anti-corruption measures.
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L’ancien président de l’Association chinoise de football a été condamné à la prison à vie pour avoir accepté des pots-de-vin. Dans le milieu, il n’est ni le premier ni le dernier à subir les foudres de la justiceC’était il y a exactement 8 ans. Lors du mercato d’hiver 2016, de nombreux grands noms du football mondial avaient accepté un transfert en Chine, attirés par des salaires mirobolants et la promesse de participer à l’essor d’une nouvelle …
Chen Xuyuan, former chairman of the Chinese Football Association, sentenced to life imprisonment for, among other things, match-fixing and bribery.
China sentences ex-soccer chief to life in prison in latest crackdown on sports corruption
By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The former head of China’s official soccer association has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in the central Chinese province of Hubei, in the latest crackdown on the country’s corruption-plagued professional football league. The ex-soccer chief, Chen Xuyuan, was jailed on Tuesday alongside multiple senior sporting executives, according to state media, following a months-long investigation. Despite Ch…
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