The judgment delivered in the southwestern city of Wrocław on Wednesday is no longer subject to appeal, Poland’s PAP news agency reported.
The original verdict in the long-running high-profile case was announced by in December 2019.
The defendant, identified only as Ryszard F. and by his nickname ‘The Barber,’ was at the time found guilty of almost all of his over 100 charges, including that he offered bribes to fix matches at various tiers between July 2003 and June 2006.
"The evidence concerning Ryszard F. is so compelling that there were no grounds to change the sentence," Judge Janusz Godzwon said on Wednesday.
Together with ‘The Barber,’ more than a dozen other defendants, including football officials, referees and players were on Wednesday convicted by final judgment, the PAP news agency reported.
Some of them were handed suspended prison sentences ranging from several months to more than a year.
The judgments came after Polish investigators in 2005 opened a large-scale match-fixing probe, with the subsequent detention of more than 200 players, coaches and officials.
‘The Barber’ was accused of establishing and masterminding an organised criminal group described as a “football mafia.”
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Source: PAP
