FIFA Ethics Committee

The FIFA Ethics Committee is a judicial body of FIFA that investigates and penalizes violations of the FIFA Code of Ethics.

history

The Ethics Committee was established by FIFA in 2006. The first chairman was Sebastian Coe . In March 2010 Claudio Sulser took over the chairmanship of the commission.

After criticism of the way it worked, the commission was restructured in 2012 and reorganized into an investigative chamber and a judicial chamber. After the restructuring, the lawyer Michael J. Garcia was appointed chairman of the investigative chamber and the judge Hans-Joachim Eckert was appointed chairman of the adjudicatory chamber.

Procedure

The investigative chamber can initiate preliminary proceedings at its own discretion or on the basis of written reports . If a preliminary investigation confirms the possibility of a violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics, the investigative chamber initiates a formal investigation procedure and, after completion, submits an investigation report to the adjudicatory chamber, which then makes a judgment based on the results. For violations of the FIFA ethics rules the judicial chamber against concerned officials locks express different duration for all football-related activities and fines. Temporary bans may be imposed during the proceedings.

Composition (2017)

Surname	nationality
Chairperson
María Claudia Rojas (Investigation Chamber)	Colombia
Vassilios Skouris (Judicial Chamber)	Greece
vice-chairman
Bruno de Vita (Investigation Chamber)	Canada
Fiti Sunia (adjudicatory chamber)	American Samoa
Martin Ngoga (Investigation Chamber)	Rwanda
Members of the investigative chamber
Hey Jiahong	People's Republic of China
Janet Katisya	Kenya
Michael Llamas	United Kingdom
José Ernesto Mejía	Honduras
Members of the adjudicatory chamber
Mohammad Ali Al Kamali	United Arab Emirates
Justice Ayotunde Phillips	Nigeria
Aivar Pohlak	Estonia
Margarita Echeverría	Costa Rica
Jack Kariko	Papua New Guinea
Flavio Zveiter	Brazil

decisions

The FIFA Ethics Committee has so far imposed more than 70 bans on officials, including Sepp Blatter , Michel Platini , Chuck Blazer , Jérôme Valcke , and Mohamed bin Hammam .

After Garcia's resignation in 2015, his deputy, Cornel Borbély, was elected chairman of the investigative chamber.

Web links

• Official website of the FIFA Ethics Committee

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ethics Committee promises to defend the integrity of football. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ The "white miracle runner": Coe celebrates his birthday. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
3. ↑ From goalscorer to anti-corruption fighter. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Fifa decides overdue reform. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
5. ↑ "Today you see a happy president". Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
6. ^ Opinion on the revision of the criminal law against corruption. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Independent ethics committee. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Independent ethics committee judicial chamber. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
9. ↑ FIFA bans the next official. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} FIFA: Blatter and Platini banned for eight years. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
11. ↑ “Weltwoche” names Blatter “Swiss of the Year” A chronology of the corruption scandal. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
12. ^ The bans of the FIFA Ethics Committee. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
13. ↑ FIFA exec am Hammam banned for life for bribery. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Cornel Borbély elected Chief Investigator of the FIFA Ethics Committee. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; Retrieved April 26, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.