To date, only “five hearings have been postponed, but proceedings are continuing normally, although deadlines sometimes have to be extended“, Matthieu Reeb, secretary general of the CAS, headquartered in Lausanne, told AFP.
For the hearings, “we offer videoconferences but it is not always ideal and there are starting to be reports, like the one concerning Musa Bility for example”, he added.
The appeal of Mr. Bility, former president of the LFA, suspended ten years by Fifa for corruption, was to be studied on March 27 but the hearing was postponed and “no new date has been set for the moment,” said Reeb.
“We are always open but a lot of employees (40 in total, editor’s note) are telework“added Mr. Reeb.
Musa Bility, then member of the executive committee of the African Football Confederation (CAF) and main opponent of its president, the Madagascan Ahmad Ahmad, had been suspended in late July by FIFA internal justice from all football-related activity for ten years . The Liberian is accused of corruption, including the embezzlement of funds for an awareness campaign on the Ebola virus.
The FIFA investigation, opened in May 2018, was linked “to the diversion funds awarded as part of the FIFA +11 campaign against Ebola +, “said the body.
FIFA judges also ruled that Mr. Bility had misused other resources sent to the LFA and diverted funds to companies controlled by him or his family.
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