The International body vested with the responsibility of settling disputes related to Sports through Arbitration, The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), has all but ended the attempt at re-election of CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad.
The Malagasy who has been President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since March 17, 2017 was banned for five years by FIFA in November 2020 for financial misconduct.
The FIFA ethics committee found “Ahmad had breached his duty of loyalty, offered gifts and other benefits, mismanaged funds and abused his position as the CAF President.”
Ahmad, a former Government reliable in Madagascar, changed into also fined 2 hundred,000 Swiss francs ($220,000).
Ahmad’s first four-yr time period became clouded with allegations of economic wrongdoing and misconduct at the Confederation of African Football headquarters in Cairo.
He changed into detained via French authorities in Paris at the eve of the Women’s World Cup for thinking approximately a CAF gadget cope with a agency that seemed to have little reference to soccer.
“The investigation into Mr. Ahmad’s conduct in his position as CAF President at some point of the period from 2017 to 2019 concerned diverse CAF-associated governance troubles, along with the company and financing of an Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca, his involvement in CAF’s dealings with the sports equipment organisation Tactical Steel and other sports,” FIFA stated in a assertion.
The sixty one-yr-vintage Malagasy, but, appealed FIFA’s selection at CAS, which issued a preliminary ruling in January 2021, reinstating him as President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), albeit on a temporary basis.
In the absence of Ahmad, Mr. Constant Selemani Omari were President on-the-interim.
The Congolese, Selemani changed into additionally barred from contesting within the March 12 elections, as he is likewise below investigation by way of FIFA's Ethics Committee, who're probing each his role, and that of Ahmad's, in a selection to amend a thousand million-dollar TV agreement.
The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has reduced Ahmad Ahmad’s FIFA ban from 5 years to 2 years following his appeal on Monday.
The CAF President has additionally be fined 50 000 Swiss francs
This leaves South African businessman and Mamelodi Sundowns boss, Patrice Motsepe as the only Presidential candidate, set to be elected unopposed on March 12, after the 3 other candidates; Senegalese Emmanuel Senghor, Ivoirien Jacques Anouma and Mauritanian Ahmed Yahya withdrew from the race.
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