With the Election of a new CONCACAF President scheduled to take place in a week’s time, news comes that disgraced former CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb is facing a lifetime ban from football after FIFA's Ethics Committee opened proceedings against him.
An election for the post of President that Webb held is up for grabs between Canada’s Victor Montagliani and Bermuda Football Association President Larry Mussenden.
The 51-year-old former FIFA vice-president admitted one count of racketeering conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud conspiracy and three counts of money laundering conspiracy at the United States District Court in New York in November.
Webb, from the Cayman Islands, is one of the officials targeted by American authorities investigating corruption within FIFA - which was described as a "World Cup of fraud".
He was one of seven people sensationally arrested in Zurich last May, before FIFA's annual Congress.
Now, the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert, has been handed his case after a final report submitted by the investigatory chamber.
FIFA will push for a lifetime ban with Webb, who also formerly served as President of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), accused of a string of ethics breaches.
"The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by Mr Hans-Joachim Eckert, has opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against Mr Jeffrey Webb based on the final report submitted by the investigatory chamber," a FIFA statement said
"The adjudicatory chamber has carefully studied the report of the investigatory chamber, under the chairmanship of Dr Cornel Borbély, and decided to institute formal adjudicatory proceedings against Mr Webb, formerly the President of CONCACAF, a vice-president of FIFA, a member of the Executive Committee of the Caribbean Football Union and the President of the Cayman Islands Football Association.
"The final report was transmitted to the adjudicatory chamber on 26 April 2016, with a recommended sanction of a lifelong ban from all football-related activities for violations of arts 13, 15, 18, 19 and 21 of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
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