The former president of the African Football Confederation fined

He informed the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) about this, citing the ruling of the Cairo Economic Court. The capital of Egypt is the headquarters of CAF.

Hayatou and former Moroccan Secretary General Hicham El Amrani were fined one billion Egyptian pounds (49.5 million euros) for "violating Egyptian competition law," explained the ECA in a statement released Wednesday.

The case concerns the extension in June 2015 of the agreement between CAF and Lagardere Sports, under which the French group obtained the exclusive rights to the television programs of various continental games, including the Africa Cup of Nations. The contract must be applied until 2028 and is subject to a guarantee of one billion dollars.

Hayatou called the charge of defamation and announced his appeal against the court's decision. "Throughout my chairmanship at CAF, all decisions were consistent with the status and always in the interest of African football," he said.

Kameruńczyk, 72, has been at the helm of CAF for almost 30 years (1988-2017). In 2016, during the crisis at the International Football Federation (FIFA), he was appointed president of the organization on a temporary basis, when he was forced to resign from Joseph Blatter. Last year, he did not obtain an extension of the mandate of the head of the CAF, losing the elections with Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar.