PARIS: Fifa have extended the provisional ban of former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohamed bin Hammam, world football’s governing body said yesterday.
The 63-year-old Qatari had a lifetime ban overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in July due to lack of evidence over corruption allegations, but was banned again provisionally by Fifa who launched a new probe by ethics committee investigator Michael Garcia.
The final report was completed on December 4 and submitted to the adjudicatory chamber of the Fifa Ethics Committee for examination.
In it Garcia requested the imposition of provisional measures against Bin Hammam “given the extraordinarily complex nature and the considerable scope of the present case”.
“Based on the report, the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber has decided to provisionally ban Bin Hammam given that a breach of the FCE (FIFA Code of Ethics) appears to have been committed and that a decision on the main substance of the case may not be taken early enough,” Fifa aid in a statement.
AFP
