Webb, who will also be fined $1 million, can never take part in any soccer-related activities at national and global levels, the Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert declared on Friday, reports Efe.
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Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb has been banned from football for life by the body’s ethics committee.
Webb was found guilty of charges including conflicts of interest and bribery and corruption.
The FIFA ethics committee has banned former vice president Jeffrey Webb for life and fined him $1 million for taking bribes.
Webb, who ran the CONCACAF confederation which governs football in the Caribbean and North and Central America, pleaded guilty to racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering in November.
Formal proceedings were opened against Webb by the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s Ethics Committee in May following a final report submitted by the investigatory chamber, with the outcome being a lifetime ban and fine.
The 51-year-old official from the Cayman Islands is one of the officials targeted by American authorities investigating corruption within Federation Internationale de Football Association, with the probe largely centred on illicit television and marketing deals.
Webb was arrested in Switzerland last May and extradited to the United States.
Federation Internationale de Football Association has banned Jeffrey Webb for life and opened a corruption investigation into the salaries and bonuses scheme run by Sepp Blatter and two ex-officials.
The confirmation of Webb’s sanction, which was widely expected, comes only hours after FIFA’s ethics committee announced it was also launching a new corruption investigation of Blatter, former secretary general Jerome Valcke and his deputy Markus Kattner.
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The scheme described by USA prosecutors alleged Webb, and others at FIFA, solicited bribes from sports marketing companies in exchange for directing lucrative broadcasting and commercial rights deals for various football tournaments – including the World Cup – to the bribe-payers.
