FIFA’s Ethics Committee have officially handed a 90-day ban to Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and Jerome Valcke, the trio are currently under investigation along side Former Vice president of FIFA, Chung Mong-joon, the South Korean who is also a potential candidate to succeed Blatter has been banned for six years and fined £67,924. .
Members of committee met this week after the Swiss attorney general opened
criminal proceedings against the 79-year-old Blatter last month.
Blatter is accused of signing a contract deemed unfavorable to FIFA and also
making a payment considered "disloyal’’ to Michel Platini,
who head Europe’s football governing body UEFA
The FIFA president, who happens to be a citizen of Switzerland has been running
FIFA since 1998 resigned as the president in June and Platini, has been tipped as the best candidate
to succeed him, have however both denied any wrongdoing.
The investigation is centered on
allegations believed to be around a 2005 television rights deal between FIFA
and Jack Warner, the former President of CONCACAF.
CONCACAF is the governing body of football in North and Central America and
the Caribbean.
Investigators are also examining a payment of two million Swiss Francs
(about £1.35 million; N415 million) which Platini received in 2011 for working
for Blatter.
He claims it was "valid compensation’’ for work carried out more than
nine years previously.
Along with the powerful trio, Chung Mong-joon, a South Korean official who
has served as vice president of Fifa, has been banned for six years and fined
£67,924.
"The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Hans
Joachim Eckert has provisionally banned Fifa President Joseph S. Blatter, Uefa
President and Fifa Vice-President Michel Platini, and Fifa Secretary General
Jerome Valcke (who has already been put on leave by his employer Fifa) for a
duration of 90 days," a Fifa statement reads.
"The duration of the bans may be extended for an additional period not exceeding 45 days. The former Fifa Vice-President Chung Mong-joon has been banned for six years and fined CHF 100,000. During this time, the above individuals are banned from all football activities on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately.
"The grounds for these decisions are the investigations that are being carried out by the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee. The chairman of the chamber is Dr Cornel Borbély. The investigation into Joseph S. Blatter is being carried out by Robert Torres, the investigation into Michel Platini by Vanessa Allard.
"The proceedings against the South Korean football official Chung Mong-joon were opened in January 2015 based on findings in the report on the investigation into the bidding process for the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cups. He has been found guilty of infringing article 13 (General rules of conduct), article 16 (Confidentiality), article 18 (Duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting), article 41 (Obligation of the parties to collaborate) and article 42 (General obligation to collaborate) of the Fifa Code of Ethics.
"The Ethics Committee is unable to comment on the details of the decisions until they become final, due to the provisions of article 36 (Confidentiality) of the Fifa Code of Ethics."
"The duration of the bans may be extended for an additional period not exceeding 45 days. The former Fifa Vice-President Chung Mong-joon has been banned for six years and fined CHF 100,000. During this time, the above individuals are banned from all football activities on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately.
"The grounds for these decisions are the investigations that are being carried out by the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee. The chairman of the chamber is Dr Cornel Borbély. The investigation into Joseph S. Blatter is being carried out by Robert Torres, the investigation into Michel Platini by Vanessa Allard.
"The proceedings against the South Korean football official Chung Mong-joon were opened in January 2015 based on findings in the report on the investigation into the bidding process for the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cups. He has been found guilty of infringing article 13 (General rules of conduct), article 16 (Confidentiality), article 18 (Duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting), article 41 (Obligation of the parties to collaborate) and article 42 (General obligation to collaborate) of the Fifa Code of Ethics.
"The Ethics Committee is unable to comment on the details of the decisions until they become final, due to the provisions of article 36 (Confidentiality) of the Fifa Code of Ethics."
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