By Victor Kanayo
World football governing body, FIFA, has banned former Peruvian Football Association, Manuel Burga Seoane from all football-related activities for life.
According to reports from Reuters, Seoane was said to have participated in bribery schemes.
Seoane was also ordered to pay a fine of 1 million Swiss francs ($1.10 million) for breaching articles in FIFA’s Code of Ethics related to conflicts of interest, bribery and corruption, and offering and accepting gifts or other benefits among others.
FIFA said, “The sanction imposed on Mr Burga Seoane follows a previous decision rendered by the adjudicatory chamber in July 2019.”
The decision was annulled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in April 2022 and referred back to the investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee.
Later on, the adjudicatory chamber after further investigation, said it was “comfortably satisfied” that Seoane, also a former member of the CONMEBOL Executive Committee and the FIFA Development Committee, had breached the code of ethics.
FIFA also said it had banned Bimo Wirjasoekarta, President of Indonesian club, Tira Persikabo, for two years and will pay fine of 10,000 Swiss francs.
He was found guilty of “acts of intimidation, coercion, threat and exploitation towards a player.”
