FIFA bans former President Sepp Blatter by 2028

FIFA on Wednesday stayed until 2028 after handing a new suspension of six years and eight months to its former president Sepp Blatter to receive a huge bonus. Former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Walke also increased his current suspension by the same amount. The new bans will only apply when the current sanctions on Blatter and Valke are imposed for corruption, which will last until October this year and October 2025. FIFA’s Ethics Committee said it imposed a fine of one million Swiss francs on each person.

Blatter, who is 85 years old, received 23 million Swiss francs ($ 24.6 million, 20.7 million euros) in “extraordinary bonuses” associated with the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the Confederation Cup tournament in Brazil. Earlier, the Ethics Committee stated in its summary of its decision.

The committee said Valke, a 60-year-old Frenchman who was Blatter’s right-hand man in his 17-year reign as head of football’s world governing body, received 30 million Swiss francs in the same period.

FIFA said Blatter and Walke had violated the code of conduct by “accepting and accepting gifts or other benefits” and “abusing the status quo”.

It said in a statement: “The investigation by Messrs. Blatter and Vallke includes various fees in relation to FIFA contests, especially with regard to bonus payments, which FIFA management officials, various amendments and extensions of employment contracts, as well as payment by repurchase Were done. FIFA of personal legal costs in Mr. Vulke’s case. “

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Blatter was forced to stand as FIFA president in 2015 and was originally banned by FIFA for eight years, later reduced to six on ethics violations, when he was former UEF The chairman was authorized for “undeclared payment” of two million euros, Michel Platini.

Initially, Valkhe was banned for 12 years but was reduced to 10 years on appeal.