FIFA Tribunal has suspended FIFA, president Sepp Blatter for 90 dayS.

Members of Fifa’s ethics committee have recommended the sanction after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceeding against Blatter.

He is accused of signing a contract “unfavourable” to football’s governing body and making a “disloyal payment” to Uefa president Michel Platini.

Blatter, who has run Fifa since 1998, and Platini, who wants to succeed him, deny any wrongdoing.

The investigatory chamber of Fifa’s ethics committee has requested the ban and a final decision is likely to be made on Thursday by Hans Joachim Eckhert, the head of Fifa’s ethics adjudicatory chamber.

Blatter’s adviser Klauss Stohlker told BBC Sport: “The news was communicated to the president this afternoon. He is calm. Remember he is the father of the ethics committee.

“This is provisional for 90 days but he is not actually suspended. The committee has not yet made a decision and their meetings continue.”

On Wednesday, 79-year-old Swiss Blatter told a German magazine that he was being “condemned without there being any evidence for wrongdoing”.

The ethics committee had been meeting in Zurich since Monday and have yet to make a decision on Platini, 60.

The investigation is centred on allegations believed to be around a 2005 TV rights deal between Fifa and Jack Warner, the former president of Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

It is also examining a payment of two million Swiss francs (£1.35m) that Platini received in 2011 for working for Blatter. He claims it was “valid compensation” for work carried out more than nine years previously.

The Frenchman has provided information to the criminal investigation but said he has done so as a witness.

Source: http://factualtimes.com/fifa-tribunal-suspends-blatter/

D man don too tey for dia make him do comot abeg....

FIFA is as corrupt like Nigerian politicians

79 years old man, what is he still looking for at FIFA?
I know some people will liken him to Buhari, PMB's case is different

GREAT

Ignorant Nigerians with zero knowledge of international politics. FIFA is the only international organisation with money and power that is no dominated by the racist domineering West. They hate the fact that each country regardless how rich or powerful has only 1 vote. So a country like Togo has just 1 vote like USA or Germany.

They want to destroy Or change the voting structure do that 1 European country like Britain has 50 votes while the whole of Africa is given say 5 votes. Just as they have done in the UN, IMF, WTO, WORLD Bank, UNESCO, WFP.

The corruption thing is just a rouse. Look how they are trying to protect Platini from criminal liability?

criminals worldwide

I hope we can borrow a leaf from FIFA and purge our system of corrupt people.

Am just happy dat an African will take over as President while Blatter is suspended....

The word corruption should be replace by Blatter in the dictionary. FIFA one of the most corrupt organisations in the world.

kamair237:
Am just happy dat an African will take over as President while Blatter is suspended....