Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ex-Ecuador FA official gets year in jail as part of FIFA probe (Reuters)

The FIFA logo is seen at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland March 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

A former head of logistics at Ecuador's Football Federation (FEF) was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in prison for money-laundering, a case arising from investigations in the Andean nation prompted by the FIFA corruption scandal. "Judge Ana Lucia Cevallos declares Vinicio L. (Luna) guilty of being a co-author of the laundering of assets in the Ecuafutbol case," the state prosecutor said on Twitter. Enmeshed in the worst scandal in its history, FIFA has been cracking down on wrongdoing.


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