World football heavyweights, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been suspended by FIFA for 90 days as Issa Hayatou is set to take over...official statement.
In a ruling that throws world football into total meltdown, outgoing FIFA president, Sepp Blatter and UEFA president, Michel Platini have both been provisionally banned for 90 days from any football-related activity.
FIFA's ethic committee has also announced that its secretary-general, Jerome Valcke has been banned for 90 days, and FIFA presidential candidate, Chung Mong-joon has been banned for six years and fined 100,000 Swiss francs.
Platini who had been favourite to succeed 79-year-old Blatter, will now not be involved in any football activity for the next three months while investigations continue. The 90-day suspension can also be extended by a further 45 days.
The ban would see Blatter and Platini out of office until early January, and should effectively end Blatter's 17-year reign in charge of world football's wholly tarnished governing body and Platini's eight-year tenure as president of UEFA.
An official FIFA statement reads;
"The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Hans Joachim Eckert has provisionally banned FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, UEFA President and FIFA Vice-President Michel Platini, and FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke (who has already been put on leave by his employer FIFA) for a duration of 90 days.
The duration of the bans may be extended for an additional period not exceeding 45 days. The former FIFA Vice-President Chung Mong-joon has been banned for six years and fined CHF 100,000. During this time, the above individuals are banned from all football activities on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately.
The grounds for these decisions are the investigations that are being carried out by the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee. The chairman of the chamber is Dr Cornel Borbély. The investigation into Joseph S. Blatter is being carried out by Robert Torres, the investigation into Michel Platini by Vanessa Allard.
The proceedings against the South Korean football official Chung Mong-joon were opened in January 2015 based on findings in the report on the investigation into the bidding process for the 2018/2022 FIFA World Cups.
He has been found guilty of infringing article 13 (General rules of conduct), article 16 (Confidentiality), article 18 (Duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting), article 41 (Obligation of the parties to collaborate) and article 42 (General obligation to collaborate) of the FIFA Code of Ethics. The Ethics Committee is unable to comment on the details of the decisions until they become final, due to the provisions of article 36 (Confidentiality) of the FIFA Code of Ethics."
Issa Hayatou, boss of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is next in line to have caretaker charge until the election of the next president on February 26.
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