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Luis Bedoya
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FIFA wants lifetime ban for Colombia’s corrupt former soccer chief

by Adriaan Alsema February 18, 2016

The ethics committee of international soccer organization FIFA has asked for a lifetime suspension of Colombia’s former soccer chief who has admitted to fraud.

Luis Bedoya, the disgraced former director of the Colombian Football Federation, was convicted by a US court for “racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, in connection with their participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer.”

Colombia’s former soccer chief convicted in FIFA corruption scandal

The ethics committee of the FIFA, which is embroiled in corruption charges that transcends Bedoya’s offenses, recommended “imposing … a lifelong ban on taking part in any kind of football-related activity.”

Bedoya had admitted to US prosecutors that he had earned millions of dollars through bribes and kick-back schemes.

Bedoya is only one of more than a dozen former global soccer executives accused of corruption in the biggest soccer corruption scandal in recent history.

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