A Swiss appeals court found former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke guilty of forging documents and accepting bribes in a case involving World Cup media rights, it said on Friday.
The appellate division of the Federal Criminal Court jailed Valcke, 61, Secretary General of FIFA from 2007 to 2015.
He got an 11-month suspended jail sentence.
He had been cleared by a lower court in 2020 of accepting bribes and aggravated criminal mismanagement, but Swiss prosecutors appealed the ruling.
The advantages Valcke allegedly received included the rent-free use of a villa owned by Qatari sports and broadcasting executive and Saint-Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi in Sardinia.
The appeals trial of both men, who had denied bribery charges, was held in March.
The appeals court, which reached its verdicts on Thursday, acquitted Al-Khelaifi of inciting Valcke to commit criminal mismanagement.
It also acquitted Valcke of the charge of aggravated dishonest management.
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