Ex-FIFA Council member and Mali football chief released from jail

Mali football boss and ex-Fifa Council member Mamoutou Toure released from jail

A former member of the Fifa Council, Mamoutou Toure, has been released from jail in Mali after almost two years in detention for alleged corruption, Malian media reports said on Wednesday.

Ex-FIFA Council member and Mali football chief released from jail

A former member of the FIFA Council, Mamoutou Toure, has been released from jail in Mali after almost two years in detention for alleged corruption, Malian media reports said on Wednesday.

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(Reuters) -A former member of the FIFA Council, Mamoutou Toure, has been released from jail in Mali after almost two years in detention for alleged corruption, Malian media reports said on Wednesday. Read full story

For more than a year and a half, Mamoutou Touré was running Malian football behind the walls of a prison. On 22 April 2025, the central figure of national sport, left the Central House of Arrest in Bamako after 622 days of pre-trial detention. At 67 years of age, the one who is sometimes nicknamed "Bavieux" is not an unknown person behind the international scenes. Former member of the Fifa Council, president of the Malian Football Federation (Fe…

Mamoutou Touré had been re-elected head of Malian football in 2023, when he was already incarcerated. He had been charged, along with four other persons, with "injury of public property, forgery and complicity" when he held the position of administrative and financial director of the National Assembly.