FIFA’s Ethics Committee banned former South African soccer official Lindile Kika from the sport for six years on Wednesday after an investigation into allegations of match-fixing during the 2010 World Cup.
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The case against Kika was opened in November previous year, in relation to several worldwide friendly matches played in South Africa in 2010.
Lindile Kika, who was the South African Football Association’s head of national teams at the time, has been banned from all soccer-related activities.
Federation Internationale de Football Association judge Hans-Joachim Eckert found Kika guilty of breaching five sections of the ethics code: general rules of conduct, commission, conflicts of interest as well as loyalty, duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting.
Chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, Dr Cornel Borbély, led the investigation in collaboration with the Federation Internationale de Football Association Security Division.
Responding to Kika’s ban, SAFA said it backs FIFA’s efforts to “weed out corruption”. It said the ban takes effect immediately.
In 2012, FIFA handed SAFA a 500-page report that documented the activities of convicted Singapore-based match-fixer Wilson Perumal and his Football 4U organisation. He is also alleged to have made a disloyalty payment of €2 million to UEFA president Michel Platini ahead of the 2011 presidential elections, leading to suspicion that it was a bribe given to the latter to not stand in the elections.
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