Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member who turned whistleblower for the FBI, has been banned from football for life.
The ban was announced by FIFA’s ethics committee for his “many acts of misconduct” at FIFA and as general secretary of the CONCACAF confederation.
FIFA’s ethics panel made its ruling using evidence from the American federal case which has plunged FIFA and international football into crisis.
“(Blazer) 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,” the FIFA ethics committee said in a statement.
The ethics committee found Blazer guilty of violations of general rules of conduct, loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, and bribery and corruption.
Blazer went undercover as an FBI informer after being arrested in 2011 and agreed a plea bargain to avoid a jail sentence of up to 75 years.
