The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday postponed the appeal hearing of former Malta international Kevin Sammut to February 11.

In December last year, Sammut was barred from any football activity after the UEFA Appeals Board increased the original Control and Disciplinary Body 10-year sentence to a lifetime ban for his part in a match-fixing case in 2007.

Sammut was the only Maltese player to be sanctioned by UEFA after he was found guilty to have assisted in throwing the Euro 2008 qualifier between Norway and Malta which was played in Oslo.

Norway won 4-0 with three of their goals coming in the last 18 minutes of the match.

The case surfaced in 2011 when one of the mem-bers in a notorious betting ring, Marijo Cvrtak, from Croatia, was giving testimony in a Bochum trial that dealt with several other bribed matches, ranging from internationals to league fixtures, in various countries across the continent.

CAS announced yesterday that the appeal was put back to February as Cvrtak was unable to attend the hearing in Lausanne.

Cvrtak offered to testify via Skype but after CAS consulted Sammut’s defence lawyers, Michael and Lucio Sciriha, all parties agreed to postpone the case for February 11 when all witnesses, including those summoned by Sammut’s lawyers, would testify.

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