Soccer-FIFA hands life ban to former Botswana official for match fixing

Soccer-FIFA hands life ban to former Botswana official for match fixing
Muhammet Furkan Ozkan of Turkey (R) competes during the Group F Second Preliminary Round Match of qualification for FIFA Futsal World Championship 2020 between Switzerland and Turkey in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Jan. 30, 2019. Switzerland won 3-2. (Xinhua/Nedim Grabovica) Image Credit: IANS
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Former Botswana Football Association general secretary Mooketsi Kgotlele has been banned for life by world soccer body FIFA for accepting bribes in relation to the manipulation of international matches.

FIFA said in a statement on Monday that the adjudicatory chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee had also imposed a fine of 50,000 Swiss francs ($50,952.82). ($1 = 0.9813 Swiss francs)

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