The higher court of the Brazilian sport justice (STJD) settled.
Referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho has been found guilty in the affair of the rigged matches and banished for life from professional football.
Eleven matches of the Brazilian championship have been cancelled because of the scandal which shook the Football Brazilian Confederation.
The sentence has been revealed by Wanderley Rebelo de Oliveira Filho, the president of the first disciplinary commission.
The ex referee should appeal against the decision of the court.
