Al-Khelaïfi & Valcke: Villa Bianca Case Dismissed

More than eight years after the start of their legal troubles in Switzerland, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, known as “NAK”, and Jérôme Valcke have just won a new victory against the public prosecutor of the Confederation. According to information from Mondethe president of Paris-Saint-Germain, boss of BeIN Media, and the former general secretary (2007-2015) of the International Football Federation (FIFA) were definitively acquitted of the charges of “instigation of aggravated unfair management” and “aggravated unfair management” in the so-called Villa Bianca affair.

At the end of 2013, NAK bought this villa in Sardinia, via a Qatari company, before making it available, from 2014 to 2015, to Mr. Valcke, sentenced to eleven months in prison suspended in 2022 for “passive corruption and forgery in securities” in another part of the file linked to a Greek businessman

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Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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