Another blow for Sepp Blatter and Jérôme Valcke.
On Wednesday, the international federation (Fifa) announced that it had extended the suspensions of its former president (from 1998 to 2015) and its former secretary general by 6 years.
In 2015, the first had already been sentenced to eight years of cessation of all football-related activity.
In early 2016, the second was dismissed before being punished with twelve years of suspension.
Adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee sanctions Mr Joseph S. Blatter and Mr Jérôme Valcke: https://t.co/riqpjyPzqS
- FIFA Media (@fifamedia) March 24, 2021
In both cases, there was talk of financial embezzlement.
The presidency of the Swiss, now aged 85, has been marked by many controversies and corruption cases.
In 2015, he was the subject of a disciplinary procedure, due to a disputed payment of 1.8 million euros in 2011 to the attention of Michel Platini (then president of UEFA), for a advisory work completed in 2002. This affair, called “Fifagate” had forced him to resign from the presidency in early June, three days after his re-election.
The former captain of the France team was also suspended for eight years.
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The French Jérôme Valcke (60 years old), in post at Fifa from 2007 to 2015, had for his part been convinced of “trips at the expense of the international federation while his stays were of a private nature” and “attempted sale of television rights of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to third parties by under-valuing them ”, which had earned him a twelve-year suspension.
Some of the charges against him were nevertheless dropped a year ago.