Sports Reporter:
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee of FIFA has banned Abu Nayeem Sho-hag, General Secretary of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and former member of the FIFA Dis-pute Resolution Chamber.
Shohag has been issued with a two-year ban from taking part in all football-related activities and also ordered to pay a fine of CHF 10,000 for having used false and/or falsified documents to justify pay-ments made by the BFF with FIFA funds, said a FIFA media release on Friday.
In addition to the evidence collected during the investigations conducted by the investigatory chamber in the applicable proceedings, the adjudicatory chamber was comfortably satisfied, after having conducted a hearing and upon careful analysis of the evidence presented before it, that Shohag had breached articles 13 (General duties), 15 (Duty of loyalty) and 24 (Forgery and falsification) of the FIFA Code of Ethics, 2020 edition.
The grounds of the decision have been communicated to Shohag today – the date on which the above mentioned ban comes into force.
