FIFA extends suspension of Blatter and Falk by 6 years

FIFA announced Wednesday that it imposed six years and eight months of additional suspension on its former president and general secretary Sepp Blatter and Frenchman Jerome Falk, on charges of illicit enrichment through contracts and inflated compensation since 2010.

The FIFA court, which had suspended the two men from all soccer-related activities after a series of scandals in 2015, ruled that they each also pay a fine of one million Swiss francs (around $ 1 million).

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