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Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member turned whistle blower for the FBI, has been banned from football for life by the sport’s world governing body.
Blazer, 70, has been barred from “taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level” for his “many acts of misconduct” at FIFA and as general secretary of the CONCACAF confederation, FIFA’s ethics committee announced in a statement on Thursday.
The ethics committee investigation had provisionally suspended its investigations into Blazer primarily because he is seriously ill with cancer.
The appointment of Cornel Borbely as the chief ethics investigator to replace Michael Garcia in December saw the suspension of the investigation lifted and new proceedings against Blazer started.
The ethics committee found Blazer guilty of violations of general rules of conduct, loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, and bribery and corruption.
Blazer went undercover as an FBI informer after being arrested in 2011 and agreed a plea bargain to avoid a jail sentence of up to 75 years.
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