January 5 2016
Suspended FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke is facing a nine-year ban after an ethics investigation into several alleged offences including being connected to black market sales of World Cup tickets.
FIFA’s investigatory chamber has finished its probe into Frenchman’s activities and has recommended a nine-year ban and a 100,000 Swiss franc (£67,400) fine on charges including conflicts of interest and offering and accepting gifts and other benefits.A statement from FIFA’s ethics committee said: ‘The chairman of the investigatory chamber recommended imposing a sanction of a nine-year ban and a fine of 100,000 Swiss francs on Mr Valcke for alleged violation of the general rules of conduct, loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, and general obligation to collaborate.