Bin Hammam given provisional ban

FIFA have given former Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam a provisional 90-day ban, pending an investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement.

FIFA have given former Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam a provisional 90-day ban, pending an investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement.

Bin Hammam recently saw a lifetime ban from FIFA overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after being found guilty in 2011 by FIFA's ethics committee of paying bribes to Caribbean Football Union officials while campaigning against Blatter for the FIFA presidency.

But the disgraced former AFC boss is also currently under a provisional ban from the AFC for financial irregularities during contract negotiations, and the FIFA Ethics Committee have extended that ban “in order to prevent interference with the establishment of the truth in respect of a preliminary investigation”.

A statement on the FIFA website reads:

“At the request of Michael J. Garcia (chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee), Hans-Joachim Eckert (chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee) today provisionally banned Mohamed bin Hammam from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level for a period of a maximum of 90 days.

“The decision was taken based on art. 83 par. 1 in fine of the FIFA Code of Ethics, in order to prevent interference with the establishment of the truth in respect of a preliminary investigation initiated pursuant to article 62 par. 2 of the FIFA Code of Ethics.

"The investigation aims inter alia at assessing the PwC report of 13 July 2012 in respect of potential misconduct on behalf of Mr bin Hammam in the light of the provisions of the FIFA Code of Ethics and at assessing the prospects of collecting further evidence relevant to the recently closed CAS proceedings in the case of Mr Mohamed bin Hammam v/ FIFA as well as at undertaking investigative efforts to this end.”