FIFA said Wednesday it had extended the ban on its former president Sepp Blatter and former secretary-general Jerome Valcke by six years and eight months, in relation to the receipt of huge bonuses.
Blatter, who is 85, received 23 million Swiss francs ($24.6 million) in “extraordinary bonuses” linked to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as well as the Confederations Cup tournament in Brazil that preceded it, FIFA’s Ethics Committee said in a statement.
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Valcke, the 60-year-old Frenchman who was Blatter’s right-hand man during his 17-year reign at the head of football’s world governing body, received 30 million Swiss francs over the same period, the committee said.
The Ethics Committee said Blatter and Valcke had broken rules in FIFA’s Code of Ethics including “offering and accepting gifts or other benefits” and “abuse of position”.
The new bans will only come into force when the current bans on Blatter and Valcke, which last till October this year and October 2025, end.
The Ethics Committee said it had also fined each man one million Swiss francs.
It will be recalled that Sepp Blatter was once reported to be in critical condition and was hospitalized.
Blatter served as FIFA president between 1998 – 2015 before the FIFA Ethics Committee ejected him from office and banned from taking part in any FIFA activities over the following eight years.
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On 24 February 2016, a FIFA appeals committee upheld the suspension but reduced it from eight years to six.
The Swiss media quotes the daughter of the former world football leader, who does not specify what her father is suffering from and asks for privacy.
Meanwhile, was notified by Swiss federal prosecutors he is an ‘’accused person’’ over a loan FIFA gave in 2010 to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.
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