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beIN launches $1bn claim again Saudis for IP theft as Qatar state goes to WTO for help

By Paul Nicholson

October 1 – Saudi Arabia has been hit with a two-pronged billion dollar offensive from broadcaster beIN and the Qatar state over the on-going copyright theft of pirate broadcaster beoutQ. A consortium of rights holders including FIFA and the Premier League are expected to follow suit in the coming days as the Saudis rapidly turn themselves into the pariahs of the sports rights business.

FIFA

Valcke hammered by CAS but how far does this ruling really scratch FIFA’s grimy surface?

By Andrew Warshaw and Paul Nicholson

September 25 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued a stunning indictment of the conduct of former FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke in issuing its full written reasons for dismissing his appeal against a 10-year ban from football and a CHF100,000 fine.

Europe

Liverpool’s Lovren denies perjury as Croatian prosecutors say he lied in Mamic case

September 20 – Liverpool’s Croatian World Cup defender Dejan Lovren has been charged with perjury in the trial of ex-officials of Dinamo Zagreb, his former club.

Law

ICAS plays down significance of RFC Seraing ruling

By David Owen

September 11 – The International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS) has played down the significance of a ruling by the Brussels Court of Appeal that has been reported as calling into question the ability of football bodies, and potentially counterparts in other sports, to insist that disputes go to the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Law

Belgian ruling raises questions over football bodies’ ability to insist disputes go to CAS

By David Owen

September 10 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)’s uncontested jurisdiction over sporting disputes appears to have been put in question by a ruling handed down by a Brussels Court of Appeal.

Integrity

Three-year match ban for Nazi saluting Swansea fan

September 4 – A lifelong Swansea City fan who gave a Nazi salute to Tottenham Hotspur supporters has been branded a “racist oaf” by a judge and been banned from matches for three years.

Law

TV villain: Belgian football presenter Pauwels on armed robbery charges

August 31 – One of Belgium’s leading football TV presenters has been charged with being an accomplice to an armed robbery, according to prosecutors.

Law

Napout’s pleas go unheard as Judge Chen sentences him to 9-year jail term

By Andrew Warshaw

August 30 – Six months after being found guilty, Juan Angel Napout (pictured), one of the biggest scalps in the sprawling FifaGate corruption scandal that brought the organisation to its knees, has been jailed for nine years in the latest get-tough sentence handed down by US justice authorities.

Law

Marin hit with 4-year jail term. Webb asks to postpone sentencing again

August 23 – In a landmark verdict six months after he was convicted for his role in the FifaGate scandal, Jose Maria Marin, the former president of Brazil’s football federation who to the last insisted he had done nothing wrong, has been sentenced to four years in jail.

Law

Crime and punishment: FIFPro says Samir Arab’s matchfixing ban is unfair and wrong

August 23 – The international players’ union FIFPro has taken UEFA to task over a two-year ban imposed for matchfixing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Maltese under-21 international Samir Arab.

Law

Crystal Palace fanzine holds Sussex police to account

August 23 – Coming just a day after the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would not be prosecuting Hillsborough police chief Norman Bettison for his part and lies in the cover-up of the disaster, Sussex police have been found to be in breach of the Freedom of Information (FoI) act.

Integrity

Lying Hillsborough police chief Norman Bettison to escape criminal trial

August 22 – A former British police chief who was charged with lying over his role in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster that killed 96 fans will no longer face trial after a review of evidence, according to prosecutors.

FIFA

Jose Maria Marin sentencing: Federal prosecutors demand 10 years

August 20 – The long-awaited sentencing of former Brazilian supremo Jose Maria Marin (pictured right) is scheduled for Wednesday (August 22) in Brooklyn, New York, with federal prosecutors reportedly pushing for a 10-year jail term for the 85-year-old.

FIFA

World Cup bribe allegations hits Televisa share price as pension fund files complaint

August 10 – Mexican broadcaster Televisa is failing to shake off allegations that it bribed its way to the broadcast rights to the 2018, 2022, 2026 and 2030 World Cups, with an amendment to a March complaint in the NY Federal court being filed this week.

Integrity

Former FIFA boss Valcke loses CAS appeal against 10-year ban

Jerome Valcke12

By Andrew Warshaw

July 27 – Jerome Valcke, for years Fifa’s charismatic go-to troubleshooter before being snared by ethics prosecutors and falling spectacularly from grace, has lost his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport after seeking to overturn his 10-year ban from football.