Forgery of vaccination certificate: decision issued in Granit Xhaka’s case

A decision has now been issued. The Swiss national team’s Albanian captain, Granit Xhaka (34), has been given a suspended fine. The 34-year-old himself announced the news in a post on Instagram.

Xhaka was sentenced by summary penalty order to 50 daily fines of 3,000 Swiss francs each, suspended.

“This means that the sentence will not be enforced if I commit no further offences during this period. I have paid the costs of the proceedings,” Xhaka explained.

Before the national team’s most recent matches, Xhaka admitted that he had forged two vaccination certificates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The admission came after the newspaper “Blick” had reported, a few days earlier, on proceedings by the Lucerne Public Prosecutor’s Office concerning the matter.

“I accept the decision and take responsibility,” Xhaka went on to write.