Court for Arbitration for Sports have reduced Nigerian coach Samson Siasia’s life-ban from football for bribery to five years.
The court also cancelled a fine of 50,000 (US$50,000) that had also been part of the sanctions imposed by Fifa.
CAS, disclosed this in a statement released on Monday.
Siasia, was initially banned from all footballing activities in 2019 for life after he was indicted for bribery despite pleading not guilty.
Since the pronouncement by CAS, he has been appealing the decision for it to be overturned.
The court stated that: “determined the imposition of a life ban to be disproportionate for a first offence which was committed passively and which had not had an adverse or immediate effect on football stakeholders, and that a five-year ban would still achieve the envisaged aim of punishing the infringement committed by Mr Siasia.”
