NEW YORK: Former Peru soccer federation president, Manuel Burga, was found not guilty on Tuesday of racketeering conspiracy by a USA jury in New York. Burga was charged along with Juan Angel Napout, the former president of the South American soccer governing body CONMEBOL and Paraguay’s soccer federation, and Jose Maria Marin, former president of Brazil’ soccer federation, with taking bribes in exchange for the award of valuable marketing and media rights to international soccer matches. Napout and Marin were both convicted on several counts on Friday, following a five-week trial in federal court in Brooklyn.
Published in Daily Times, December 27th 2017.
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