Blatter faces 90-day suspension from football
ZURICH: Fifa president Sepp Blatter faces a 90-day suspension from football if the governing body’s ethics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a former adviser to Blatter said yesterday.
Blatter’s long-term confidant Klaus Stoehlker said the decision by judge Hans-Joachim Eckert on the provisional suspension was expected by tomorrow.
“There is no final decision, this is a recommendation from the lower part of the ethics committee to the upper part,” said Stoehlker, who added Blatter had been informed of the development.
A Fifa spokesperson directed inquiries to Blatter’s US lawyers who did not respond to requests for comment.
Swiss prosecutors last month opened a criminal investigation into Blatter over a Caribbean World Cup TV rights contract he signed, and a 2011 payment of $2.1 million to Uefa boss Michel Platini, whose status the Swiss attorney-general has described as being between a witness and an accused person.
Both have denied any wrongdoing. – Reuters