(FILES) This picture taken on April 15, 2007 shows Gigi Becali, the owner of Steaua Bucharest football team during an interview with AFP at his home in Bucharest. The coach of the national football team of Romania, Victor Piturca, was sentenced on June 4, 2013 to one year suspended sentence for complicity in a corruption case involving the controversial owner of Steaua Bucharest Gigi Becali. In this case so-called "suitcase", the High Court also condemned Becali, already imprisoned for another corruption case, to three years in prison for offering bribes to players of opposing team, Cluj University in 2008 to influence a match, said the Court. Piturca is accused of having favored Becali in this case. AFP PHOTO DANIEL MIHAILESCU,Image: 163716703, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no

FILE - A file picture taken on June 9, 2009 showing Gigi Becali, the owner of Steaua football club, and a former shepherd, gesturing during an interview with the Associated Press in Bucharest. Romania's top court has sentenced the owner of Steaua football club, the former chief of staff of the armed forces and a former defense minister to two years in prison each for abusing their positions and bribery in a real estate deal.The court sentenced Gigi Becali, Steaua's owner and also a former MEP, on Monday for abetting public officials to abuse their position in a real estate swap with the Army between 1996 and-1999.,Image: 590276898, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required. JUNE 9 2009 FILE PHOTO, Model Release: no, Pictured: Gigi Becali

George Becali, the owner of the Romanian soccer team FCSB, announces that this is the last press conference he will ever hold, that he is retiring from football and wants to sell the team, unhappy with the way was refereed his team's last match and about the way the Romanian Football Federation manages Romanian football, saying "I can not fight with all the tyranny in Romania, I can not fight, especially as they have the state powers, which are, I fought I did jail, I give glory to the Lord that I did only so much that I did not realize what I got myself into, I went into the fire as a fool, of' goodbye, I withdrew, I no longer have business with them" during a press conference held in his palace in Bucharest. George Becali to Sell FCSB Soccer Team, Bucharest, Romania - 24 Apr 2023,Image: 771643179, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no

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