On 14 April 2023, the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Independent FIFA Ethics Committee announced that it had banned Mr Abu Nayeem Shohag, the current General Secretary of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and a former member of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber. The sanction imposed is detailed below.
The FIFA-led investigation into Mr Shohag’s activities started on 28 October 2020, when FIFA received information from audits performed on BFF. On 5 March 2021, a forensic report on the use of funds by BFF covering the period of 1 January 2017 to 30...
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