Nigeria’s Amos Adamu suspended

  1. Posted on Thursday 18 November 2010 - 10:46
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    Sanday Chongo Kabange, AfricaNews reporter in Lusaka, Zambia
    FIFA executive committee members Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii have been suspended from all football-related activity for three years and one year respectively in relation to allegations of corruption regarding World Cup votes due December 2010.
    Amos Adamu
    The pair were implicated in a Sunday Times investigation which accused the duo of accepting money in return for their vote in the bidding for the World Cup, with reporters from the newspaper posing as representatives of the United States' 2022 World Cup bid.

    Adamu has already indicated his intention to appeal against the verdict delivered on Thursday by the chairman of Fifa's ethics committee, Claudio Sulser, according to a report in the Guardian.

    Adamu was fined 10,000 Swiss francs (£6,341) and Temarii 5,000 Swiss francs (£3,170) as part of the sanction against them.

    In a separate investigation, the ethics committee found insufficient evidence of collusion between the bid teams of Spain-Portugal 2018 and Qatar 2022. The Fifa ethics committee had also been conducting an investigation into allegations that the two bid teams had been colluding to trade votes, against bidding regulations.

    However, it was announced today the committee "did not find sufficient grounds to reach a conclusion that there was any collusion".

    Adamu has outlined his displeasure at the verdict of the organisation's ethics committee and confirmed he will appeal. He pre-empted today's announcement by releasing a statement indicating his intention to fight the findings.

    "I am profoundly disappointed with the Ethics Committee's findings and had honestly believed I would be exonerated of any charges by now," he said. "I am innocent of all the charges levelled against me by the Ethics Committee and I completely refute the decision they have made.

    "As yet I have not been advised of the grounds of the Ethics Committee's decision but regardless, I will be lodging a full appeal against it with immediate effect."

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