Former Czech epublic football association head gets prison term

NEW DELHI: The former head of the Czech Republic football association was convicted of fraud on Thursday and sentenced to six years in prison.

Prague’s Municipal Court also fined Miroslav Pelta 5 million Czech crowns ($235,000) and banned him from an executive position for five years.

The court issued the verdict in a retrial of the case after it handed Pelta the same sentence in 2021. An appeals court cancelled that ruling and returned the case back to the original court.

In the same case, the court also sentenced Simona Kratochvilova, a former deputy education minister, to six-and-a-half years in prison, banned her from working in public offices for six years and fined her 2 million Czech crowns ($94,000). Agencies

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