MANCHESTER, England—Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been handed a further six years and eight months ban from the game and fined a million Swiss francs ($1.07 million) by the body’s Ethics Committee after a probe into massive bonus payments.
Blatter’s current ban from the game was due to expire in October but the latest ban, for ethics code violations, will take effect from that point.
The latest investigation looked into World Cup bonus payments made to Blatter and a number of former top FIFA officials including former general secretary Jerome Valcke, former vice-president Julio Grondona and ex-finance director Markus Kattner.
The ethics committee said in a stateme…
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