Sepp Blatter could be suspended by Fifa for 90 days – and Uefa’s Platini is also under threat
Ethics committee set to recommend embarrassing ban for embattled president and European counterpart, with Korea's Chung investigated as well
Fifa president Sepp Blatter faces an imminent 90 day suspension from football if the governing body’s ethics judge backs a prosecutor’s recommendation, a close friend and former advisor to Blatter says.
Blatter’s long-term confidant Klaus Stoehlker said the decision by judge Hans-Joachim Eckert on the provisional suspension was expected by Friday.
"There is no final decision, this is a recommendation from the lower part of the Ethics Committee to the upper part," said Stoehlker, who added that Blatter had been informed of the development.
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"President Blatter will be in his office at Fifa tomorrow," he said.
Fifa’s ethics code provides for a representative of the Investigatory Chamber to look into a case and make a request to Eckert’s Adjudicatory Chamber to take action.
The ethics committee tribunal was also to decide whether to take action against Uefa leader Michael Platini and former Fifa vice president Chung Mong-Joon, both candidates to take over from Blatter.