Congo Football President Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas, Family Sentenced To Life For Corruption

In Congo, Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas, president of the Congolese Football Federation, has been sentenced to life imprisonment following a massive corruption probe.

Convicted in absentia, Mayolas was found guilty of embezzling nearly $1.3 million in FIFA funds, money laundering, and forgery. His wife and son were also handed life sentences in the same case.

The verdicts mark the end of an eight-month investigation, during which authorities uncovered what they described as a deeply fraudulent financial system at the core of FECOFOOT.