Bin Hammam Banned for Life by FIFA, Resigns All Posts

Mohamed Bin Hammam has resigned all his posts in soccer after being banned from football for life by FIFA.

He is no longer a member of the FIFA Executive Committee and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after being banned due to his “conflicts of interest’ while president of the AFC.

It is the second time FIFA has placed a lifelong ban on Hammam after it found him guilty of paying bribes at a Caribbean Football Union meeting in Trinidad and Tobago in 2011. However, check the ban was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in July due to insufficient evidence.

FIFA said in a statement: “Mr Mohamed Bin Hammam, rx FIFA executive committee member and AFC president, therapy has resigned from all his positions in football with immediate effect and will never be active in organised football again. This results from a resignation letter of Mr Bin Hammam addressed to FIFA and AFC dated December 15, 2012.

“In view of the fact that under the new FIFA code of ethics, the FIFA ethics committee remains competent to render a decision even if a person resigns, the adjudicatory chamber decided to ban Mohamed Bin Hammam from all football-related activity for life.”