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FIFA Ethics Committee Issues Eight-Year Bans to President and Vice President

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On December 21, the FIFA Ethics Committee announced that it would ban its embattled President, Sepp Blatter, and Vice President, Michel Platini, from all football-related activities for eight years.  The ban was imposed as a result of an investigation into a payment of $2 million from FIFA to Platini in 2011 that was authorized by Blatter.  The Ethics Committee’s statement on their decision stated that the payment was made without a legal basis.  Platini is currently the head of UEFA, the governing body of European football.   News reports state that it was widely anticipated that Platini would be elected President of FIFA in the upcoming 2016 election, but he has now withdrawn his candidacy following the Ethics Committee’s decision. Click here to view prior FCPA Scorecard posts on FIFA.