SOCCER-FIFA/CONCACAF CONCACAF general secretary suspended from all football-related activities by FIFA

Record ID: 149916

  • Title: SOCCER-FIFA/CONCACAF CONCACAF general secretary suspended from all football-related activities by FIFA
  • Date: 1st June 2015
  • Summary: MIAMI, FLORIDA (MAY 27, 2015) (REUTERS) MEDIA OUTSIDE CONCACAF OFFICES DURING FBI RAID FBI OFFICER LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL ENTERING BUILDING WHERE OFFICES ARE LOCATED FBI PLACARD ON CAR DASHBOARD POLICE HELICOPTER MIAMI POLICE VEHICLES
  • Embargoed: 16th June 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADMZTE97FLOWYMOPSQTTF7ZNKF
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  • Story Text: CONCACAF general secretary Enrique Sanz has been provisionally suspended from all football-related activities by FIFA's ethics committee.
    The ethics committee said in a statement on Monday (June 1) that Sanz was suspended "on the basis of investigations carried out by the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee and the latest facts presented by the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York."
    In a separate announcement, the ethics committee said that Congolese federation vice-president Jean Guy Blaise Mayolas and the general secretary Badji Mombo Wantete had also been suspended pending further investigation.
    CONCACAF, the governing body which represents North and Central America and the Caribbean, said on Thursday that it had placed Sanz, who had held the post since 2012, on a leave of absence "to begin immediately".
    CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb was among seven soccer officials arrested in Zurich on Wednesday, two days before FIFA's annual Congress and presidential election.
    The seven have been detained pending extradition to the United States on corruption charges.
    The Congolese suspensions were "based on the fact that various breaches of the FIFA Code of Ethics appear to have been committed by said officials."
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