A Swiss criminal court has convicted international sports powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah of forgery, but has not yet handed down a sentence. The 58-year-old Sheikh, a former energy minister and prominent member of the ruling family in Kuwait, denied all charges in the trial over whether he used a bogus Kuwaiti coup plot to gain advantage over political rivals. He has said he will appeal Friday’s court verdict. Sheikh Ahmad temporarily resigned his membership of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) after Geneva’s public prosecutor filed charges against him and four others. But in March 2019 he was re-elected as president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), despite the case in Switzerland. According to the charges, Sheikh Ahmad is accused of orchestrating an intricate scheme using falsified video recordings to prove that the former Prime Minister of Kuwait and the Speaker of Parliament were preparing a coup d'état and had stolen public funds. The Kuwaiti...
