According to the Algerian press, several charges weigh against the 59-year-old businessman, accused with other people of acts of corruption through the “conclusion of contracts in violation of the law for the granting of “undue advantages to others and obtaining unjustified privileges”, “willful squandering of public funds” and “abuse of office”.
Kheireddine Zetchi, who succeeded Mohamed Raouraoua at the head of the FAF, presided over the destiny of Algerian Football between 2017 and 2021. He was also behind the creation of the Paradou football training center.
Corruption is commonplace in Algerian football since the management of football under his predecessors was tainted by prevarication and corruption.
In reality, the legal proceedings against Kheireddine Zetchi are revenge for the military regime in Algeria which has not forgiven the former president of the FAF for his vote during the 43rd General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), in in favor of the amendment of article 4 of the statutes of the pan-African body.
The said article, voted unanimously in March 2021 in Rabat, stipulates that no non-UN member state can sit in an international body of a cultural, sporting or other nature and only the representatives of independent and members of the UN are admitted to CAF.
An amendment which definitively put an end to the dream of the corporals of Algiers whose objective was to have the pseudo-SADR admitted within the CAF.
Par Le360 Sport
11/27/2024 at 10:26 p.m.
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