Whistle-blower banned for embezzling funds

Blazer is a former secretary general of CONCACAF and was accused of embezzling at least 21 million by compensating himself with the bodys funds without any authorization.

Blazer,the most senior American official at FIFA for 16 years,also allegedly bought some apartments with CONCACAF money. He resigned as CONCACAFs secretary general in December 2011 FIFA said in a statement on Monday that its ethics committee decided to provisionally ban Blazer based on the fact that various breaches of the FIFA Code of Ethics appear to have been committed by the American.

Blazer has not commented on the ethics allegations. The American was the whistle-blower in a bribery scandal involving his former boss at CONCACAF,Jack Warner,who resigned as the bodys president in June 2011 after Blazer accused him and then-Asian confederation head Mohamed bin Hammam of attempting to bribe Caribbean delegates 40,000 each to vote for bin Hammam in the FIFA presidential election.

The announcement came less than one week after fellow FIFA executive committee member Vernon Manilal Fernando of Sri Lanka was banned for eight years for unethical behaviour.

Blazer and former CONCACAF president Jack Warner were described last month as being 8220;fraudulent in their management8221; of the continental confederation8217;s affairs by the head of its Integrity Committee.