Turkey acquits all defendants in 2011 match-fixing case

ByReuters

Published 09/10/2015 at 18:34 GMT

Turkey acquitted all the defendants in its four-year long match-fixing case, including Fenerbahce chairman Aziz Yildirim, after UEFA had banned the club for two seasons from all European competitions.

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In June this year, the Istanbul court ordered a retrial of several convicted suspects, including Yildirim, in the July 2011 match-fixing case, which shook Turkish football to the core.

Yildirim was first sentenced to jail in 2012 and fined 1.3 million Turkish Liras ($560,000) for forming a criminal gang and match-fixing during the 2010-2011 season. He served around one year in prison before being freed pending a retrial.

Fenerbahce and Besiktas were banned for two and one seasons consecutively from European competition by UEFA.

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