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Former FIFA vice-president Jeffrey Webb handed life ban

Jeffrey Webb, President of CONCACAF and the Cayman Islands Football Association and FIFA Vice President, attends the XXXIX Ordinary UEFA Congress in Vienna
Image: Disgraced former FIFA executive Jeffrey Webb

Former FIFA vice-president Jeffrey Webb has been banned for life from all football-related activity and fined £770,000.

The 51-year-old from the Cayman Islands was once considered a future leader of world football's governing body but that prospect ended when he was arrested in Switzerland last May by local police acting on behalf of the United States Department of Justice.

Webb, who ran the CONCACAF confederation which governs football in the Caribbean and North and Central America, pleaded guilty to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering in November.

He has been provisionally suspended by FIFA since his arrest but the adjudicatory chamber of its ethics committee has now handed him its most serious sentence.

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FIFA confirmed in a statement: "The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee found Mr Webb guilty of violations of article 13 (General rules of conduct), 15 (Loyalty), 18 (Duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting), 19 (Conflicts of interest) and 21 (Bribery and corruption) of the FIFA Cod of Ethics (FCE).

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"In consequence, Mr Webb has been banned for life from all football‑related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level and fined CHF 1,000,000."

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