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FIFA extends ban on Blatter by six years 

News Express |24th Mar 2021 | 1,207
FIFA extends ban on Blatter by six years 

Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter

International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) said on 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.
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. (AFP)

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