Fenerbahce Chairman Found Guilty of Match-Fixing

Turkish Soccer club Fenerbahce have remained embroiled in a match-fixing scandal after their chairman Aziz Yildirim was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of match-fixing and forming an illegal organisation, pill

He will not, click however have to serve the sentence.

A Turkish court reached the guilty verdict against Yildrim on Monday, link but Turkish law means the amount of time he had served in prison while awaiting trial – a year – represents enough of a portion of his sentence for him to be released from custody.

He was among 93 defendants, including club executives and players, being tried in the case. The court also convicted several other suspects, including the former Giresunspor president Olgun Peker, on similar charges.

The verdicts were delivered two months after the Turkish football federation cleared all 16 Turkish teams of involvement in alleged match-fixing.

The clubs were cleared because there was no evidence that alleged attempts to fix games had altered the course of 22 matches under suspicion.