Nationality Swiss Years active 2006–present Home town Zürich | Occupation Lawyer Term 2014–present | |
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Cornel Borbély (born 1978) is a Swiss jurist. He is a lawyer in Zurich and chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee.
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Life and education
Borbély was born in 1978 in Dürnten. After graduating from high school he worked for a major bank from 1997 to 2000 and studied jurisprudence at the same time at the University of Zurich. Borbély graduated in 2003 and received his doctorate in 2005, also from the University of Zurich. At the University of Lucerne, he received a degree in forensics in 2007 and a Masters in Economic Crime Investigation in 2011.
Professional career
Borbély was approved as lawyer, in the Canton of Zurich in 2006 and in the same year became Law Clerk to the prosecutor of the Canton. In 2007, he was appointed to prosecutor in charge of general criminal matters. In 2008, Borbély moved to the department for economic crime and was group leader there as of 2011. After retiring in 2014, Borbély worked as an attorney at a law firm in Zurich. In 2015, he opened his own law firm for criminal and commercial law in Zurich.
FIFA Ethics Committee
Borbély was made deputy chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee in 2013. Following the resignation of Michael J. Garcia as chairman of the investigatory chamber, FIFA appointed Borbély to succeed him. In May 2015, the FIFA Congress confirmed him as chairman.
Other activities
Borbély is deputy chief of military justice of the Swiss Air Force and lecturer in economic criminal law.