GENEVA — A newly published legal document says FIFA spent $11.7 million in less than three years on private jets, including luxury sight-seeing trips for a top official.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has published a panel's verdict explaining why it dismissed Jerome Valcke's appeal against a 10-year ban.

As FIFA secretary general in 2013, Valcke was urged in an internal memo to find "more cost efficient alternatives whenever possible."

Excessive use of private jets and ordering business-class travel for his son were factors in Valcke being banned by the FIFA ethics committee after he was fired in 2016.

CAS judges also detailed Valcke intervening to help his son's business interests with FIFA paying an initial $709,000 for a 2014 World Cup contract.

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