The FIFA ethics committee has handed former FIFA executive Chuck Blazer a
lifetime ban from all football-related activies for bribery and
corruption.
In a statement, Fifa’s ethics panel said Blazer had “committed many
and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his
time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions
at Fifa and Concacaf.
“In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in
schemes involving the offer, acceptance, payment and receipt of
undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other
money-making schemes.”
Blazer, 70, pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including bribery, money
laundering and tax evasion, in 2013. The charges carried a maximum
concurrent imprisonment term of 75 years, but Blazer agreed to become an
informant for the FBI and US justice department in return for immunity
from prosecution.
The plea bargain, which was made public last month,
revealed that Blazer, who was general secretary of the Concacaf
governing body, began providing information to the authorities in
December 2011 – more than three years before the US government charged
14 current and former Fifa officials with “hijacking” international
football to run “a World Cup of fraud”
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