World football governing body FIFA, through its Ethics Committee, has with immediate effect banned former Gambia Football Association (GFA) president Seedy Kinteh from football activities for four-years and fined him US$200,000 for receiving cash gifts from former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar.
Ethics Committee found Kinteh guilty on charges of bribery and corruption and accepting gifts.
The FIFA statement said: “The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has banned Mr Seedy Kinteh, former President of the Gambia Football Federation, for four years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level. The investigation against Mr Kinteh was opened on 1 March 2017.”
Meanwhile, the FIFA adjudicatory chamber also found Mr Kinteh guilty of having violated art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts and other benefits) and art. 21 (Bribery and corruption) of the 2012 edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
“Mr Kinteh has been banned for four years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level. Additionally, a fine in the amount of US$200,000 has been imposed on Mr Kinteh,” FIFA pointed out.
Kinteh was named in a 2014 investigation report by FIFA — then-ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia for taking payments totalling $69,396 from Bin Hammam, a former FIFA presidential aspirant, from February 2010 to April 2011.
