FIFA clear Blatter, suspend bin Hammam
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Warner (left) and Bin Hammam have been provisionally suspended by the FIFA Ethics Committee. |
FIFA suspended senior executives Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner because of bribery allegations Sunday while exonerating President Sepp Blatter in the gravest corruption crisis facing soccer's governing body.
The FIFA ethics committee, chaired by Nambibian Petrus Damaseb, heard 62-year-old Qatari bin Hammam, Warner and Blatter during a dramatic day which had started with bin Hammam withdrawing from the presidential election in which he was Blatter's sole opponent.
Meanwhile, regarding the ethics proceedings opened against FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter at the request of Mohamed bin Hammam for a potential breach of the FIFA Code of Ethics, all charges were dismissed in full, as the Ethics Committee found that no breach of the Code of Ethics had been committed.
The decision of the committee almost certainly clears 75-year-old Swiss incumbent Blatter to be re-elected unopposed in Wednesday's presidential vote.
The Ethics Committee will meet again in due course in order to take a final decision on the matter after gathering more information and evidence on the cases.
