FILE PHOTO: Former secretary general of the Guatemalan football federation Hector Trujillo of Guatemala departs after pleading guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., June 2, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
ZURICH (Reuters) - A former Guatemalan judge was banned from football for life by global soccer body FIFA on Tuesday for bribery while he was general secretary of his country's football federation.
Hector Trujillo, who was also fined $200,000 (147,673 pounds), had already been sentenced by a United States court to eight months in prison last October after previously pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy.
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