PRISTINA: Agim Ademi, president of Kosovo’s football federation since July 2018, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for attempted coercion in a case dating back to 2012.

The Kosovo Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling issued in July to the 58-year-old. An associate, Muharrem Rama, received a one-year prison sentence.

Both were accused of forcing a business to collaborate in July 2012 to pay €30,000 or donate a BMW X5 luxury vehicle to a Pristina municipality official to receive falsified documents relating to a real estate transaction, Radio Free Europe reported on February 26.

The indictment was filed originally in 2014.

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