FIFA ethics committee investigates Amos Adamu

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Former Director General of the National Sports Commission Amos Adamu is under investigation by FIFA’s ethics committee, it revealed on Wednesday.

Adamu is alleged to have breached FIFA’s code of ethics but world football’s governing body did not provide any more details.

The 62-year-old was a member of FIFA’s executive committee for four years until 2010, when he was banned from all football activity for three years.

He was banned over claims he asked for money in exchange for World Cup votes.

Adamu’s suspension expired in October 2013.

A FIFA statement read: “Proceedings relating to the two officials Angel Maria Villar Llona and Franz Beckenbauer have already been passed on to the adjudicatory chamber.”

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Beckenbauer and Villar Llona are two of 11 names confirmed to be under investigation by FIFA which include president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and UEFA president Michel Platini. All three were handed provisional 90-day suspensions two weeks ago.

The other six officials identified are Worawi Makudi, Jeffrey Webb, Ricardo Teixeira, Amos Adamu, Eugenio Figueredo and Nicolas Leoz.

The news comes after Germany were sensationally accused of buying the 2006 World Cup last week.

The claims that implicate Beckenbauer and current German FA chief Wolfgang Niersbach were made in respected weekly news magazine Der Spiegel.

They were described as ‘very serious’ by FIFA, who will add them to their host of other investigations.

Der Spiegel say the German bid committee for the 2006 World Cup set up a private 6.7 million euros (£5m) slush fund bankrolled by the late adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus to buy the four Asian votes on FIFA’s executive committee.

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