Following his appeal, Cas reduced Nyantakyi's lifetime Fifa ban external-link from football to 15 years while also lowering his fine of $500,000 to $100,000. "[Nyantakyi] admitted his guilt only on the morning of the final hearing," Cas wrote in its full grounds, dated April 2020, relating to the decision to reduce his sanction. "[He] accepted at the hearing the necessity of Cas imposing a significant sanction and that, since he had admitted the offences, the ban could not be quashed." Instead, Nyantakyi's legal team successfully argued that a life ban was neither fair nor commensurate to the offences committed. Nonetheless, the Cas ruling stated, in relation to the video footage, that 'the authenticity of these recordings is not disputed by' either Nyantakyi nor Fifa.

Source: BBC January 07, 2021 12:11 UTC