Chuck Blazer, a key figure in a U.S. investigation into soccer corruption, was Thursday banned for life from the sport by its governing body, FIFA.
The former executive committee member, who in 2013 secretly pleaded guilty in the United States to
bribery and financial offences, was found by FIFA's ethics committee to
have breached rules on loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure,
conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and bribery and
corruption.
Blazer "committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF (which governs the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean)," the ethics committee said in statement.
"In his positions as a football official, he was
a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, payment and
receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks."
Lawyers for Blazer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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