Monday, December 19, 2016

FIFA ethics judges ban 2 Honduran officials for life (The Associated Press)

The FIFA ethics committee has banned two Honduras officials for life for taking bribes. The judging chamber says former FIFA vice president Alfredo Hawit and Rafael Callejas, the Honduras state president from 1990-94, previously made guilty pleas to racketeering and wire-fraud conspiracy charges in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of corruption in international soccer. Callejas was a member of FIFA's Marketing and TV committee when he was indicted by American prosecutors last year.

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