Tuesday 5 January 2016 18:10, UK
FIFA's ethics committee has recommended imposing a nine-year ban on the governing body's suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke.
The French administrator's original 90-day suspension from all football-related activities ends on Tuesday but the ethics committee has requested a 45-day extension.
A statement from the committee also recommended Valcke serve a nine-year ban and pay a fine of approximately £68,000 for alleged "misuse of expenses and other infringements of FIFA's rules and regulations".
The ethics committee statement read: "The chairman of the investigatory chamber recommended imposing a sanction of a nine-year ban and a fine of 100,000 Swiss francs on Mr Valcke for alleged violation of the general rules of conduct, loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, and general obligation to collaborate."
"Until a formal decision is taken by the adjudicatory chamber of the ethics committee, Mr Valcke is presumed innocent."
Valcke was suspended after emails and documents were released which suggested he was aware that a Swiss marketing company was selling off World Cup and Confederation Cup tickets for almost five times their face value.
The emails and documents show Valcke signed off contracts with Swiss firm JB Sports Marketing AG for category one tickets for a number of matches.
The company also claims it entered into a profit-sharing agreement with Valcke - though no money changed hands - and he strongly denies asking for or receiving any money from JB Sports.
The allegations are also being investigated by the Swiss attorney general - FIFA handed over Valcke's emails to prosecutors shortly after his suspension.
Vacke's lawyer countered: "The Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has chosen to ignore Jerome Valcke's exemplary conduct and extraordinary contributions during his long tenure as Secretary General.
"Today's press release is nothing more than a self-serving public relations effort to wrongly attack Mr Valcke in a desperate attempt to try to prove that FIFA can police itself. Mr Valcke did absolutely nothing wrong as any independent and fair review of the facts would establish."
A week before his suspension in September, Valcke had told Blatter that he wanted to end his contract early and had been trying to negotiate a multi-million pound pay-off.
Blatter and Platini were banned for eight years for offences including conflict of interest surrounding a £1.3m payment, signed off by Blatter, made to the Frenchman in 2011.
The pair had insisted it was a debt owed to Platini for an oral agreement made between the two of them 13 years previously. They are expected to lodge appeals against the bans.
