{"id":16960,"date":"2018-12-20T07:38:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16960"},"modified":"2018-12-20T07:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T07:38:14","slug":"fifa-bans-former-gambia-football-federation-boss-seedy-kinteh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-bans-former-gambia-football-federation-boss-seedy-kinteh\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA bans former Gambia Football Federation boss Seedy Kinteh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The former President of the Gambia football federation has been banned by FIFA from all football activities for four years after the governing body found him guilty of corruption charges.<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The adjudicatory chamber found Mr Kinteh guilty of having violated art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts and other benefits) and art. 21 (Bribery and corruption) of the 2012 edition of the Fifa Code of Ethics,&#8221; Fifa said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xkZe3jy3by\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/ghana-qualify-afcon-2019-caf-disqualifies-sierra-leone\/\">Ghana qualify for AFCON 2019 after CAF disqualifies Sierra Leone<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Ghana qualify for AFCON 2019 after CAF disqualifies Sierra Leone&#8221; &#8212; Sahara Football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/ghana-qualify-afcon-2019-caf-disqualifies-sierra-leone\/embed\/#?secret=KbQ4b4kDLP#?secret=xkZe3jy3by\" data-secret=\"xkZe3jy3by\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The investigation against Kinteh began on 1 March 2017 and was linked to Fifa&#8217;s presidential elections in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He was named in a 2014 investigation report by Fifa&#8217;s then-ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia for taking payments from former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam.<\/p>\n<p>Bin Hammam was suspended in 2011 days before the election against then-president Sepp Blatter after being implicated in bribing Caribbean voters.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the suspension, which comes into force immediately, Kinteh was fined US$200,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former President of the Gambia football federation has been banned by FIFA from all football activities for four years after the governing body found him guilty of corruption charges. &#8220;The adjudicatory chamber found Mr Kinteh guilty of having violated art. 20 (Offering and accepting gifts and other benefits) and art. 21 (Bribery and corruption)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8417],"tags":[491,8309,9144,9145,9143],"class_list":{"0":"post-16960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-african-football","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-fifa","10":"tag-fifa-ban","11":"tag-gambia","12":"tag-gambia-fa","13":"tag-seedy-kinteh"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/seedy.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4py","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27597,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-caf-president-ahmad-ahmad-handed-lengthy-ban\/","url_meta":{"origin":16960,"position":0},"title":"CAF president Ahmad Ahmad handed lengthy ban","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"November 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"CAF president Ahmad Ahmad handed lengthy ban Confederation of African Football (CAF) president and FIFA vice-president Ahmad Ahmad has been handed a five-year ban for breaching the FIFA Code of Ethics. 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