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FIFA bans CAF president for 5 years
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The head of African football, Ahmad Ahmad, has been banned for five years by FIFA following an ethics investigation by world soccer鈥檚 governing body.
Ahmad, president of the Confederation of African Football, had intended to stand in an election in March in which he would have faced a number of challengers.
FIFA said in a statement the independent Ethics Committee has found Ahmad, of Madagascar, guilty of offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, and misappropriation of funds.
FIFA had 鈥渟anctioned him with a ban from all football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level for five years,鈥 it said, adding it had fined him 200,000 Swiss francs (US$200,000).
Former CAF general secretary Amr Fahmy, who died earlier this year from cancer, had been sacked after he made corruption allegations against Ahmad last year in a document sent to FIFA.
The document, sent on March 31, 2019, by Fahmy to a FIFA investigations committee, accused Ahmad of ordering his secretary-general to pay US$20,000 bribes into accounts of African football association presidents. They included Cape Verde and Tanzania.
The document also accused Ahmad of costing CAF an extra US$830,000 by ordering equipment via a French intermediary firm called Tactical Steel. The company denied any wrongdoing and said it had won the contract on merit.
Furthermore, it accused him of harassing four female CAF staff, whom it did not name; violating statutes to increase Moroccan representation within the organization; and over-spending more than US$400,000 of CAF money on cars in Egypt and Madagascar, where a satellite office has been set up for him.
Senior CAF officials, speaking on condition of anonymity at the time of his dismissal, said Fahmy was fired in reprisal for compiling the document with the allegations against Ahmad.
Ahmad was questioned by French authorities in June 2019 after he was taken from his Paris hotel and questioned by officers of OCLIF, the French police agency fighting financial crime and corruption, French media reports said.
In August last year, FIFA general secretary Fatma Samoura was appointed 鈥済eneral delegate鈥 for Africa and took control of a large part of CAF鈥檚 affairs.
In February, at the end of that process, a review of CAF鈥檚 finances by Price Waterhouse Cooper was highly critical of how the African organization鈥檚 finances had been managed.
A copy of the 55-page report outlined a series of concerns about CAF鈥檚 book-keeping. 鈥淭he accounting records of CAF are unreliable and not trustworthy,鈥 said the PWC report. Based upon the procedures performed and documents reviewed, several red flags, potential elements of mismanagement and possible abuse of power were found in key areas of finance and operations of CAF.
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