Geneva: Prosecutors in Switzerland have appealed against federal court verdicts that cleared former FIFA official Jerome Valcke of bribery and acquitted Qatari soccer and broadcasting executive Nasser al-Khelafi on a lesser charge.
The Swiss attorney general's office said Tuesday it appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Federal Criminal Court against a ruling given in October.
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Al-Khelafi, the president of Champions League runner-up Paris Saint-Germain and a member of UEFA's executive committee, had denied a single charge of inciting Valcke to commit aggravated criminal mismanagement while FIFA's secretary-general.
That charge related to Valcke getting rent-free use of a vacation home on an Italian island the court said was bought in 2013 by Qatari interests with Al-Khelafi's help.