Karim Benzema: French footballer guilty in sex tape blackmail case

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Benzema lost his place in the national team over the scandal.

Benzema was found guilty of conspiring to blackmail a fellow French footballer with a sex tape.

Benzema was given a suspended jail term and ordered to pay a fine.

Benzema was one of five people put on trial last month over an attempt to extort a Frenchman.

The scandal has shocked the football community in France and both players lost their national team places.

The two football players were at a French training camp in June of 2015.

Prosecutors said that Benzema put pressure on Valbuena to pay off the blackmailers, who he had plotted with.

Benzema insisted that he was only trying to help Valbuena get rid of the incriminating video.

The player is expected to start for Real Madrid when they play FC Sheriff Tiraspol in the European competition on Wednesday.

Neither Benzema nor Valbuena were present in court for the verdict.