FIFA has announced the suspension of the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad for five years for corruption.
Ahmad, from Madagascar, has been president of the African Football Confederation (CAF) since March 2017 and had disclosed his intention to seek re-election after his first term ends in March 2021.
In a statement, FIFA said that Ahmad had “breached his duty of loyalty, offered gifts and other benefits, mismanaged funds and abused his position as the CAF President”.
Ahmad has also been fined 200,000 Swiss francs ($220,000) by FIFA for the misdeeds, which related to “the organisation and financing of an Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca” and his involvement in CAF’s dealings with a sports equipment company.
“Consequently, the adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Ahmad had breached arts 15, 20 and 25 of the current edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics, as well as art. 28 of the 2018 edition, and sanctioned him with a ban from all football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level for five years,” the statement read.
In addition, former CAF Secretary General, Amr Fahmy – dismissed in April 2019- sent a letter to FIFA in which he accused Mr. Ahmad of corruption, payment of bribes to several leaders, personal use of funds from the CAF and sexual harassment against several Confederation employees.
Mr Ahmad is currently recovering from coronavirus which forced him to hand over to Caf first vice-president, Constant Omari.
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