Federation Internationale de Football Association ban vice-presidents Juan Ángel Napout and Alfredo Hawit

Officers raided Media World, which allegedly paid bribes in connection with FIFA’s deepening corruption scandal.

South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) president Juan Angel Napout (right, front) attends the 65th FIFA Congress in May, 2015 in Zurich.

In a statement released Friday, FIFA said that the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee of the sport’s governing body had banned the two vice presidents, including the president of the South American Football Confederation, Juan Angel Napout, and the president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football and of the Honduran Football Association, Alfredo Hawit, from all football-related activities for 90 days.

RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil (Xinhua) – The president of Brazil’s football federation (CBF) Marco Polo Del Nero began a leave of absence on Thursday as he prepares to defend himself against corruption charges.

The pair, presidents of Concacaf and Conmebol respectively, are both Fifa vice-presidents and were taken into custody by Swiss police following drawn raids at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, where the Executive Committee of world football’s governing body met on Thursday.

The indictment issued yesterday by the United States Department of Justice cited charges of racketeering conspiracy and corruption although both Hawit and Napout are opposing their extradition to the US.

Eleven current and former members of FIFA’s executive committee have been charged in the investigation, which alleges hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal payments over the past quarter-century that involved the use of U.S. banks and meetings on American soil.

Reynaldo Vasquez, a former president of El Salvador’s football federation.

“The message from this announcement should be clear to every culpable individual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade our investigation: you will not wait us out; you will not escape our focus”, Lynch said.

Meanwhile, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, who are facing life bans for corruption, are expected to go before the Federation Internationale de Football Association ethics committee within two weeks. Verdicts are expected within days. In addition, guilty pleas were unsealed for former CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb and former executive committee member Luis Bedoya. “According to the USA arrest requests, they are suspected of accepting bribes of millions of dollars”.