- Benzema was found guilty of helping to blackmail a former teammate over a sex tape.
- He was given a one-year suspended prison sentence and was fined around $84,100.
- Prosecutors said Benzema was helping the blackmailers, while he said he was helping the teammate.
A French court found soccer star Karim Benzema guilty of being complicit in the attempted blackmail of a former teammate over a sex tape.
Benzema was given a one-year suspended prison sentence and was fined 75,000 euros ($84,100), The New York Times reported.
Prosecutors say that Benzema worked with other people to blackmail the soccer player Mathieu Valbuena while the two of them were at a training camp for the French national team in 2015, the BBC reported.
The video had been taken from Valbuena's cellphone, The Times reported.
Prosecutors said Benzema urged Valbuena to pay, while working with the blackmailers, the BBC reported.
Benzema denied wrongdoing, saying he was only helping Valbuena, according to the BBC.
He was one of five people on trial in the case, the BBC reported.