Former FIFA President, Sepp Blatter has been handed a new ban of six years and eight months from football, said world football's governing body.

Ex-FIFA General Secretary, Jerome Valcke has received a similar punishment, with both also being fined £780,000.

FIFA said the bans were for "various violations" of its code of ethics.

The new bans start when the current suspensions of Blatter and Valcke end in October 2021 and October 2025 respectively.

The former FIFA President, alongside then UEFA President (a 3-time Balon d'or winner) Michel Platini and then FIFA Secretary General, Jerome Valcke, were provisionally suspended for 90 days in October 2015 for ethics violations.

Platini is already serving an 8-year ban from "all football-related activities" since 2015.

Adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee sanctions Mr Joseph S. Blatter and Mr Jérôme Valcke
24 Mar 2021

The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Joseph S. Blatter, former FIFA President, and Mr Jérôme Valcke, former FIFA Secretary General, guilty of various violations of the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE).

The investigations into Messrs Blatter and Valcke covered various charges, in particular concerning bonus payments in relation to FIFA competitions that were paid to top FIFA management officials, various amendments and extensions of employment contracts, as well as reimbursement by FIFA of private legal costs in the case of Mr Valcke.

In its decisions, the adjudicatory chamber ruled that Mr Blatter had breached art. 15 (Duty of loyalty), art. 19 (Conflicts of interest) and art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts or other benefits) of the FCE, while Mr Valcke was found to have violated art. 15 (Duty of loyalty), art. 19 (Conflicts of interest), art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts or other benefits) and art. 25 (Abuse of position) of the FCE. In the calculation of the sanctions to be imposed, the adjudicatory chamber applied the principle of lex mitior and art. 11 of the 2018 edition of the FCE, which stipulates a maximum limit on the applicable sanction. Consequently, Messrs Blatter and Valcke have both been sanctioned with bans from all football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level for a period of six years and eight months. In addition, fines to the amount of CHF 1,000,000 have been imposed on both Messrs Blatter and Valcke.

The motivated decisions were notified to Messrs Blatter and Valcke today, and have also been published on legal.fifa.com. As the previous bans from taking part in all football-related activity imposed on Messrs Blatter and Valcke by the independent Ethics Committee in 2015 and 2016 have not yet been purged, the bans notified today will only come into force upon the expiry of the previous bans (i.e. on 8 October 2021 and 8 October 2025, respectively).

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I dey tell you. No time

Quaroption everywhere

And the fools in CAF are reducing the sentence of Ahmad that thief.

Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright ....

What is the niggarrrr below me saying....
Penaldo fans every where

Very corrupt man
Awarded awards to Messi anyhow
Hediot

Na wa oh

Even Sepp Blatter is a yam eaters in football?

Okay, after this new ban expires make you ban him again.

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This is system that work not Naija's

corruption everywhere.
Meanwhile, Get a quick and affordable loan with no collateral requirements. check my signature for more details.

haba, 6 years to his age.

FIFA and corruption ehn, it's more like don't get caught kind of thing over there...

banning people already out of office. like you giving them holiday.

Damakboy:
Very corrupt man
Awarded awards to Messi anyhow
Hediot

Messi suppose win all the Balloon d'or from 2010 to 2019
Na because them dupe am some years Dem suspend the werey
But I like as this FIFA dey Bleep anybody up,ex-president o,current president,Dem no wan know
Somebody in Abuja needs to emulate them

the too much money that football generates do force these big men to indulge so much in corruption...
I CNT blame them and would do same if i gat a chance on that sit because all man gat his price...

I wonder if it was black men from Africa doing this.....what would have the whites in FIFA respond to especial the Europeans who taught they own football.

I was even thinking that Dr. Amos Adamu has shame us until Platini, Batter n co got deep in financial mess...corruption everywhere!

Almost 1million pounds

Where will they see that one

Damakboy:
Very corrupt man
Awarded awards to Messi anyhow
Hediot

I know someone would say dis....what about him extending the timeframe for voting the next day after cr7 did a hatrick that qualified them to worldcup against zlatan sweden?
cr7 ended up winning the ballon d or that season even if we all know Ribery was a strong favorite because bayern won all trophies dt year and cr7 only won d league...
it worked for cr7 n no problem n u complaining abt messi own, hypocrites..

Players like Wesley sneijder will like this..

No jail terms?

FIFA really mean this Sepp Blatter.

I personally think, if not because of this man, Africa would have not hosted the world cup in the next 5 decades.

The man really tried, he resisted all oppositions by staging the mudial in South Africa.

If not for anything, i adore the man for that.

paulolee:

I know someone would say dis....hypocrits

I endorse the statement...

Ok

Sepp Blatter was powerful in his time as FIFA president and was among the world's most powerful people along side Obama and the Pope.
I don't even know the name of the current FIFA president I think they call him Igbo or thereabout I saw him presenting a speech at the world cup in Russia was just smiling like werey

You’d think infantino himself is a saint lol with the way he keeps handing out suspension,bans and fines.

Noted

Robbed Thiery Henry of balloon d'or