Cornel Borbély

Cornel Borbély
Born	1978 (age 38–39) Dürnten
Nationality	Swiss
Education	University of Zurich and University of Lucerne
Occupation	Lawyer
Years active	2006–present
Home town	Zurich
Title	Chairman of the Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee
Term	2014–2017
Predecessor	Michael J. Garcia

Cornel Borbély (born 1978) is a Swiss jurist. He is a lawyer in Zurich and was until 2017 chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee.

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.

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.

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. In May 2017 Borbély was controversially not reelected. María Claudia Rojas became his successor.

Borbély is deputy chief of military justice of the Swiss Air Force and lecturer in economic criminal law.

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