http://www.setanta.com/au/Articles/2011 ... id-101602/
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And this on FIFA website
The FIFA Ethics Committee, under the chairmanship of Petrus Damaseb (Namibia), has today decided to ban football officials from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) for periods of between life and one year, after they were found to have breached various articles of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
The decisions, which were taken during a two-day meeting of the Ethics Committee held in Zurich on 22 and 23 July 2011, are the following:
• Mohamed bin Hammam (FIFA Executive Committee member) was banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at national and international level for a period of life.
• Debbie Minguell (Caribbean Football Union official) was banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at national and international level for a period of one year.
• Jason Sylvester (Caribbean Football Union official) was banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at national and international level for a period of one year.
• Furthermore, Chuck Blazer (FIFA Executive Committee member) received a warning for comments he made on 30 May at the CONCACAF Caucus held in Zurich. These comments suggested some CFU members were “under investigation”, when this was not true.
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Plans to appeal ... Asian football supremo Mohammed Bin Hammam. Photo: Getty Images
Asian football supremo Mohammed bin Hammam was on Saturday banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA's ethics committee.
The 62-year-old Qatari, the president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had been accused of trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $US40,000 ($A37,000) cash gifts to Caribbean football officials.
"The official Mr Bin Hammam is hereby banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national or international level for life," announced ethics committee deputy chairman Petrus Damaseb.
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Bin Hammam did not attend the hearing, which took place behind closed doors at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, but he told AFP in a telephone conversation on Saturday evening that he intended to appeal.
He specified that the first step would consist of making an appeal to FIFA, but he has previously declared that he is prepared to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and, if necessary, the civil courts.
Bin Hammam, the most high-ranking FIFA figure to be convicted of corruption, also reacted to the decision on his blog by publishing a scanned copy of a personal letter sent to him by FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2008.
In the letter, which Blatter addressed to "My dear brother," Bin Hammam highlighted a phrase in which the 75-year-old Swiss had written: "Without you, dear Mohammed, none of this would ever have been possible".
Below the letter were the words: "This is only the battle, not the war..." -- suggesting that he holds Blatter at least partly responsible for his fate.
The head of Bin Hammam's legal team, Eugene Gulland, read out a statement from him after the verdict was announced.
"Mr Bin Hammam rejects the findings of the FIFA ethics committee hearing and maintains his innocence," said Gulland. "He will continue to fight his case through the legal routes that are open to him.
"The FIFA ethics committee has apparently based its decision on so-called 'circumstantial evidence', which our case has clearly demonstrated was bogus and founded on lies told by senior FIFA officials."
Whistle-blowers said Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials to vote for him by distributing cash-stuffed envelopes during a Caribbean Football Union (CFU) meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on May 10-11.
CFU officials Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester, also being investigated by the ethics committee over claims they helped hand out the money, were each banned from football-related activity for a year.
In addition, Damaseb revealed that the committee had rejected an accusation of racial discrimination made by CFU members against CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer, who sparked the initial investigation into the bribery claims.
However, Blazer was warned over comments he made at a CONCACAF meeting on May 30 that certain CFU members were "under investigation", which FIFA said was "not true".
Former FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jack Warner was also charged over his alleged role in the affair, but his resignation from FIFA last month prompted the organisation to drop all the charges against him.
Damaseb admitted that Warner's absence from the proceedings was a matter of regret.
"Mr Jack Warner chose to resign and by that action he placed himself beyond the jurisdiction of this committee," said Damaseb.
"Everyone would have wanted him to appear and face the charges and explain his conduct, but he chose not to do that."
Damaseb also said that the evidence reviewed by the committee during the hearing had yielded grounds for investigations into the conduct of other parties, but he did not reveal who they were.
Bin Hammam's withdrawal from the presidential election gifted a fourth straight term in office to his former ally Blatter, who made cleaning up FIFA's tarnished image a post-election priority.
The Qatari, who had been instrumental in winning the hosting rights of the 2022 World Cup for his tiny Gulf state, had expected to be punished by the ethics committee.
"It seems likely that FIFA has already made its decision weeks ago," he wrote on his blog in the build-up to the hearing.
"So none of us should be completely surprised if a guilty verdict is returned."
Acting AFC president Zhang Jilong, the favourite to succeed Bin Hammam at the head of the organisation, said it was "a sad day for AFC and Asian football."
He added: "AFC respects world football governing body FIFA's decision and we also acknowledge former AFC president Mohamed bin Hammam's inalienable right to lodge an appeal against the decision."
AFP
Asian football supremo Mohammed bin Hammam was on Saturday banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA's ethics committee.
The 62-year-old Qatari, the president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had been accused of trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $US40,000 ($A37,000) cash gifts to Caribbean football officials.
"The official Mr Bin Hammam is hereby banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national or international level for life," announced ethics committee deputy chairman Petrus Damaseb.
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Bin Hammam did not attend the hearing, which took place behind closed doors at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, but he told AFP in a telephone conversation on Saturday evening that he intended to appeal.
He specified that the first step would consist of making an appeal to FIFA, but he has previously declared that he is prepared to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and, if necessary, the civil courts.
Bin Hammam, the most high-ranking FIFA figure to be convicted of corruption, also reacted to the decision on his blog by publishing a scanned copy of a personal letter sent to him by FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2008.
In the letter, which Blatter addressed to "My dear brother," Bin Hammam highlighted a phrase in which the 75-year-old Swiss had written: "Without you, dear Mohammed, none of this would ever have been possible".
Below the letter were the words: "This is only the battle, not the war..." -- suggesting that he holds Blatter at least partly responsible for his fate.
The head of Bin Hammam's legal team, Eugene Gulland, read out a statement from him after the verdict was announced.
"Mr Bin Hammam rejects the findings of the FIFA ethics committee hearing and maintains his innocence," said Gulland. "He will continue to fight his case through the legal routes that are open to him.
"The FIFA ethics committee has apparently based its decision on so-called 'circumstantial evidence', which our case has clearly demonstrated was bogus and founded on lies told by senior FIFA officials."
Whistle-blowers said Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials to vote for him by distributing cash-stuffed envelopes during a Caribbean Football Union (CFU) meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on May 10-11.
CFU officials Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester, also being investigated by the ethics committee over claims they helped hand out the money, were each banned from football-related activity for a year.
In addition, Damaseb revealed that the committee had rejected an accusation of racial discrimination made by CFU members against CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer, who sparked the initial investigation into the bribery claims.
However, Blazer was warned over comments he made at a CONCACAF meeting on May 30 that certain CFU members were "under investigation", which FIFA said was "not true".
Former FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jack Warner was also charged over his alleged role in the affair, but his resignation from FIFA last month prompted the organisation to drop all the charges against him.
Damaseb admitted that Warner's absence from the proceedings was a matter of regret.
"Mr Jack Warner chose to resign and by that action he placed himself beyond the jurisdiction of this committee," said Damaseb.
"Everyone would have wanted him to appear and face the charges and explain his conduct, but he chose not to do that."
Damaseb also said that the evidence reviewed by the committee during the hearing had yielded grounds for investigations into the conduct of other parties, but he did not reveal who they were.
Bin Hammam's withdrawal from the presidential election gifted a fourth straight term in office to his former ally Blatter, who made cleaning up FIFA's tarnished image a post-election priority.
The Qatari, who had been instrumental in winning the hosting rights of the 2022 World Cup for his tiny Gulf state, had expected to be punished by the ethics committee.
"It seems likely that FIFA has already made its decision weeks ago," he wrote on his blog in the build-up to the hearing.
"So none of us should be completely surprised if a guilty verdict is returned."
Acting AFC president Zhang Jilong, the favourite to succeed Bin Hammam at the head of the organisation, said it was "a sad day for AFC and Asian football."
He added: "AFC respects world football governing body FIFA's decision and we also acknowledge former AFC president Mohamed bin Hammam's inalienable right to lodge an appeal against the decision."
AFP
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After appeal it will all get reduced. Always happens in football. It's a joke.
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how can we go to qatar, if you hug a bloke in public you get the death penalty ect, no booze either.
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If you travel to another country you should respect their laws.soccernuts wrote:how can we go to qatar, if you hug a bloke in public you get the death penalty ect, no booze either.
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While I agree with you, many supporters will be unhappy over the rules.Bodø's Publicist wrote:If you travel to another country you should respect their laws.soccernuts wrote:how can we go to qatar, if you hug a bloke in public you get the death penalty ect, no booze either.
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read qatar travel trips and tell me if any aussies will enjoy themselves
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Yes I understand that, but it's frustrating not being able to do the activities you'd normally do for footballing matches.Bodø's Publicist wrote:No-one is forcing them to go.
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I doubt many Westerners are going to find Qatar fun.soccernuts wrote:read qatar travel trips and tell me if any aussies will enjoy themselves
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That is why it will be the least attended world cup in history, according to my opinion.Bodø's Publicist wrote:No-one is forcing them to go.
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i thought they were going to have more westernised areas so people could drink in public etc?
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That will come after the inbound invasion and conquest.DOC wrote:i thought they were going to have more westernised areas so people could drink in public etc?
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USA USA USAYids wrote:That will come after the inbound invasion and conquest.DOC wrote:i thought they were going to have more westernised areas so people could drink in public etc?
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haha, or they will say iran invaded qatar so they need to bomb iran or some other far fetched storyYids wrote:Nothing like a little "convincing" to get our Western way
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qatar will be westernised under the rule of doc and yidsYids wrote:You and me could make a difference DOC