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Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner banned for life by ethics committee

Sport360 staff

16:01 29/09/2015

Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has been banned for life by FIFA's ethics committee and described as a "key player" involved in illegal payments.

Warner, who is fighting extradiction from Trinidad to the USA on corruption charges, resigned from FIFA in 2011 following a bribery scandal and has not been involved since then.

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FIFA's ethics committee opened an investigation into Warner earlier this year and has now banned him for life from football-related activities.

A statement from the ethics committee said: "Mr Warner was found to have committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF.

"In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes."

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