The case has thrown Cypriot football into a disrepute as it revealed dubious practices by some teams.

Apollon had contested the participation of newly acquired Nigerian goalkeeper Francis Uzoho, who is Nigeria national team's keeper, in its game with Anorthosis, on the grounds that he did not have a valid health card.

The athletic judge upheld Apollon's position that it would not be possible a health certificate to be issued for Uzoho to enable him to play the next day, as he arrived in Cyprus at about 4 pm on February 1, more than an hour after the offices of the Cyprus Athletics Organization (CAO), had closed for the weekend at 2.30 pm.

CAO is the highest sports authority which issues health certificates for all athletes.

Uzoho told the police that when his health certificate was being issued he was travelling on a plane. Nevertheless, the judge fined him 1,000 euros and suspended him from one football game of his team.

Prior to the judge's decision, CAO rescinded Uzoho's health card as non-existent and void ab initio, as it was based on falsified health examination papers.

A criminal investigation is under way against Anorhtosis's vice-chairman Kyriakos Yiankou, who as a doctor had provided the health certificates to CAO, a woman employee of CAO and her husband, for being involved in a conspiracy to commit a crime and in providing or handling falsified documents.

Anorthosis announced that it will appeal the decision on legal grounds, claiming that the athletic judge had taken into consideration evidence that emerged after the filing of the complaint by Apollon, namely the CAO decision to annul Uzoho's health certificate.

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