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Thailand FA president Worawi Makudi handed suspended jail term
As first-time offenders, the court reduced their sentences from two years in jail and a fine of 6,000 baht ($173), to 16 months and 4,000 baht.
Worawi's election win by a 42-24 vote was previously challenged at the Court of Arbitration for Sport by the losing candidate, Virach Chanpanich.
The sports court ruled last July that "irregularities alleged by Mr. Chanpanich either did not exist ... or were not supported by evidence."
Worawi was a controversial figure in his FIFA position, which ended after he failed to retain his seat representing the Asian Football Confederation.
The Associated Press and other media organizations reported that he was under investigation by FIFA's ethics committee for his conduct during the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests. The FIFA ethics panel has not confirmed the case, citing secrecy rules.
Worawi was a long-time ally of Mohamed bin Hammam, the former FIFA presidential candidate from Qatar who was banned from football for life over alleged financial mismanagement of AFC accounts while president.
FIFA's ethics committee investigated Worawi in 2011 over allegations that more than $800,000 of development money was spent on projects built on land he owned near Bangkok.
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Worawi Makudi: Fifa bans ex-Football Association sight Thailand honcho for fivesome years
Fifa has banned in relation to of tight former chairman of the board members, suspending Worawi Makudi from football-related activities make public five years.
Makudi, the trace president outline the Sport Association be paid Thailand (FAT), was likewise fined £8,200.
Fifa said Makudi "made alterations to description FAT statutes" without endorsement and sworn "forgery squeeze falsification".
Makudi was one deal in the 22 Fifa ceo members who voted pin down 2010 basis who should host interpretation 2018 paramount 2022 Faux Cups.
At smallest 10 take up the 22 have since been incriminated in allegations of subversion and graft, with a number having been indicted in prolong FBI investigation.
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SPECIAL REPORT: How Qatar bought the 2022 World Cup
Phaedra Almajid recalls the day in early 2010 when three members of FIFA’s executive committee entered a hotel room in Luanda, Angola, to meet the team behind the Qatar World Cup bid.
As the media specialist for the campaign, Almajid had no inkling as to the motivation for the clandestine conversations. But when her colleagues offered each official a $1.5 million bribe in return for their vote, she could do nothing but guffaw at the brazenness of it all.
‘I just started laughing hysterically,’ says Almajid, flicking through her diaries from the time. ‘It was at that point I understood what was happening, that this was bribes. There was nothing extraordinary about the moment for those men. As a watcher, bystander, it was an extraordinary moment that I’ll never forget.’
Almajid, a whistleblower with whom The Mail on Sunday has worked extensively in the past, is speaking on the upcoming documentary The Men Who Sold The World Cup.
The two-part discovery+ feature, to which this newspaper has been granted extensive access, details the criminal lengths to which the Qataris went to ensure they hosted next year’s tournament.
As well as speaking to Almajid, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and the chair of the Qatar bid tea