The former star striker of the Algerian football team and FC Porto and former national coach, Rabah Madjer, was sentenced Thursday in Algiers to six months in prison for accounting embezzlement, according to local press.
Rabah Madjer, 63, was sentenced by an Algiers court for accounting "
false declarations
", as was a co-defendant, presented under the identity of Brahim M. by the Algerian press.
At the beginning of June, the prosecutor had requested 18 months in prison against the former footballer.
The other charges for "
forgery and use of forgery
" and "
fraud
" were dropped.
The two co-defendants, who have ten days to appeal, will also have to pay a fine of 500,000 dinars (3,200 euros) to the plaintiff, the National Publishing and Advertising Agency (ANEP).
Rabah Madjer, who owned two newspapers, Al Balagh and Al Balagh Erriadhi, reportedly continued to cash ANEP publicity checks a year after the two publications closed.
The inventor of the "Madjer"
Madjer is known for his goal scored on a backheel during the European Cup with FC Porto against Bayern Munich in 1987. He gave his name to this gesture.
He was also the coach of the Fennecs, the Algerian national team, for eight months before being sacked at the end of June 2018 after a series of poor results.
