FIFA judge faces ethics investigation over offshore accounts (The Associated Press)

A FIFA judge who helped ban Sepp Blatter for financial misconduct is now under investigation by his ethics committee colleagues after being named in an international probe of offshore accounts. The FIFA ethics prosecution chamber said Monday that it ''opened a preliminary investigation to review the allegations'' linked to lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani of Uruguay. Damiani was identified in reports Sunday by international media who received a vast trove of data and documents leaked from a Panama law firm about evading tax and hiding assets through offshore accounts.