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According to BBC News, the Premier League has confirmed that Manchester City were found guilty of all charges relating to breaches of its financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.

An independent Commission found the club arranged “sham contracts” with several commercial partners and relied on “sham agreements to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs”. The Premier League said City were also guilty of the majority of charges concerning a failure to co-operate.

A redacted version of the Commission’s report said the case involved “well over 100 alleged individual breaches of Premier League Rules across four broad charge categories”. City were found guilty of all charges except one relating to non-cooperation with the league investigation.

The commercial arrangements were described as part of a “disguised funding scheme” valued at £830.69m. Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the decision established the facts of what happened at the club and showed that it had “systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade”.

Masters said the ruling vindicated the league’s decision to pursue the case and reiterated its responsibility to uphold rules intended to protect the competition’s integrity, competitiveness and fairness.