Benzema handed 1-year suspended jail term
FILE PHOTO: France's national soccer team players Karim Benzema (C) and Mathieu Valbuena attend a training session at the Botafogo soccer club's Santa Cruz stadium in Ribeirao Preto, 336 km (208 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo, June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo
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A Court in Versailles on Wednesday (Nov 24)
found France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema guilty of complicity in the
attempted blackmail of former international team mate Mathieu Valbuena over a
sex tape and sentenced him to a one-year suspended jail term.
Benzema, who had denied any wrongdoing, was
not in court. He is due to play for the Spanish club against Moldovan side
Sheriff Tiraspol later in the day.
Prosecutors had argued that Benzema had
encouraged Valbuena to pay a suspected group of blackmailers in order to keep
the sexually explicit tape out of the public eye.
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