Soccer-Former Neuchatel president Chagaev gets three-year prison term

By Brian Homewood ZURICH, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Russian businessman, who was president of Swiss football club Neuchatel Xamax when it went bankrupt, was given a three-year prison term on Tuesday. The tribunal in the canton of Neuchatel said in a statement that Bulat Chagaev had been found guilty of criminal mismanagement, embezzlement, attempted fraud and falsification of documents. Chagaev had denied wrongdoing.