Bin Hammam was handed the ban on Saturday for allegedly offering bribes to Caribbean Football Union (CFU) officials in return for their backing in his bid for the FIFA presidency. FIFA’s Ethics Committee has also asked world football’s governing body to determine whether a number of CFU members may have breached regulations by failing to report the alleged bribes, or by accepting payments.
FIFA has revealed it wrote to all CFU members on Monday requesting “all relevant information”, adding that associations that fail to provide these details “will be subject to the full range of sanctions”. Cuba was the only one of the 25 CFU associations which did not attend the meeting in question on May 10-11. Nine associations testified that they had been offered or had knowledge of the alleged $40,000 payments, but up to a dozen initially stated no such payments were made.
A FIFA statement read: "FIFA has sent a letter on 25 July to all CFU associations, asking the associations, their presidents, and any of their members with knowledge of anything that transpired during the meetings held on 10 and 11 May in Trinidad and Tobago, to provide and report all relevant information in their possession within 48 hours.”
The statement added: “Truthful and complete reporting will be considered in mitigation by the ethics committee when deciding on potential sanctions. Any person who has relevant information but does not come forward during this 48-hour period will be subject to the full range of sanctions. Following this 48-hour period, the ethics committee will be asked to open the necessary ethics proceedings.”
