suspends Blatter, Valcke and Platini

Q.  The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body of association football, futsal and beach football, on 8 October 2015  suspended which office bearers provisionally?
- Published on 10 Oct 15

a. Sepp Ballter
b. Jerome Valcke
c. Michel Platini
d. All of the above

ANSWER: All of the above
 
FIFA provisionally suspended its president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days. The ethics committee handed out the punishment following allegations of corruption against the three. FIFA also banned ex vice president Chung Mong-joon for 6 years.Issa Hayatou, head of Africa's football confederation CAF will act as the interim FIFA president during Blatter's ban. Blatter was the 8th president of FIFA. FBI and IRS-CI are currently investigating cause of corruption against him in scrutiny of collusion between officials of continental football bodies CONMEBOL (South America) and CONCACAF and sports marketing executives.

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