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The disciplinary committee of the African Union (AU) is in a real dilemma concerning the case of the Algerian referee Mehdi Obeid Charef, reported the Algerian daily El Shorouq in its edition of Wednesday, January 16th.
The paper said the committee had scheduled a hearing to hear Obeid Charef's statements on allegations of corruption, reported by the secretary general of the Algerian Union, Al-Kaf, last November, which had also announced the temporary suspension of the provision until the hearing.
The source added that the hearing, scheduled through the "video" provided for in Article 70 of the Kaf's Criminal Code, had been retracted at the last moment into a "strange" one, which raises many questions . According to the same article, the Secretary General of CAF is accompanied by the President of the Commission. Discipline in "video" sharing programming, but the presence of Secretary-General, Egyptian Amr Shaheen recovering from illness, may explain the cancellation of the hearing.
The source of the newspaper reported that the Disciplinary Committee had found no concrete evidence of the involvement of Obeid Sharaf in corruption or other cases, and was therefore in a real dilemma and was seeking a way out quickly, especially since the period of suspension of Algerian power ended on 16 December. The fact that Article 67 of the Penal Code provides that the period of temporary suspension is extended by 30 days only and that it can only be extended for 20 days and once. Obeid is close to the first period suspended until January 2 without having the right to hear it. Or at least rehabilitate him after the damage caused by the Serious offense that guided him that cost him death at the end of his career as a referee in an international final.
He added that the members of the FIFA referees' commission did not exclude the responsibility of the video referee who worked with Obeid Sharaf during the Al Ahli and Al-Tarji match in Alexandria, under the guise of l. Algerian referee, particularly with regard to the second penalty that he scored for Al Ahly.
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