Former FIFA vice-president Juan Angel Napot was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined one million Swiss francs (one million dollars) after being found guilty of accepting bribes, FIFA's independent values ​​committee said Thursday.

Nabut, 61, was sentenced last year to nine years in prison for corruption in New York City, the United States.

The defendant was found guilty of accepting $ 10.5 million in bribes to grant television rights, which prosecutors described as a vast network of kickbacks and kickbacks across football in South America.

The Values ​​Commission said its decision to impose sanctions on Naboth for the bribery case, accusing him of violating FIFA's ethics rules.

The decision to suspend Nabut means that he is no longer allowed to participate in any football-related activity at the local and international levels.

He was president of the Paraguayan Federation, and also presided over the South American Confederation of Conmebol.

He was arrested in 2015 following a major corruption scandal involving several former FIFA officials and ousted former FIFA president Joseph Blatter.