FIFA banned its former president Sepp Blatter
until 2028 on Wednesday after handing him a new suspension of six years and
eight months for receiving huge bonuses.
Former FIFA secretary-general
Jerome Valcke also had his existing suspension extended by the same amount.
The new bans will only come into
force when the current bans on Blatter and Valcke for corruption, which last
till October this year and October 2025, end.
FIFA's Ethics Committee said it
had also fined each man one million Swiss francs ($1.1 million, 900,000 euros).
Blatter, who is 85, received 23 million Swiss
francs in "extraordinary bonuses" linked to the 2010 World Cup in South
Africa and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as well as the Confederations Cup
tournament in Brazil that preceded it, the Ethics Committee said in a summary
of its decision.
Valcke, the 60-year-old Frenchman
who was Blatter's right-hand man during his 17-year reign at the head of
football's world governing body, received 30 million Swiss francs in bonuses
over the same period, the committee said.
The former sports journalist
was initially banned for 12 years but it was reduced to 10 years on appeal. He
is now banned until 2032.
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