FIFA Hit Former President, Sepp Blatter With Additional Ban

FIFA has given its former president, Sepp Blatter, a new ban from football lasting six years and eight months.

The football body said it had been imposed for multiple breaches of its ethics code, “in particular concerning bonus payments”.

It will come into force when a current suspension ends in October, the governing body added.

A suspension of the same length has been given to FIFA’s former secretary general, Jerome Valcke.

Both men have also been fined one million Swiss francs (£780,000), FIFA said.Advertisement

FIFA’s ethics investigators said Blatter had been involved in implementing a bonus scheme from which he and other officials, including Valcke, had benefited.

They found Blatter had accepted an “undue economic benefit” of 23m Swiss francs (almost £18m) between 2010 and 2014.

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