Former SA Football Association CEO Leslie Sedibe has been banned from football activities for five years, FIFA announced on Monday.
The body governing soccer, International Federation of Association Football said in a media statement that Sedibe was banned in relation to the 2010 World Cup match fixing.
It was also announced that the former CEO of SAFA was fined over R300 000.
#FIFA has banned Leslie Sedibe for five years from football-related activities & also fined him about R310 000. pic.twitter.com/OsRzdbAjUZ
— Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) March 14, 2016
Lindile Kika, Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse were the other names mentioned that were also banned by the FIFA committee.
“In this regard, the adjudicatory chamber decided that the former official, Sedibe, had infringed art. 13 (General rules of conduct), art. 15 (loyalty), and art. 18 (duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting) of the FIFA Code of Ethics and imposed a ban on him,” the statement read.
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