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Mohamed bin Hammam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Asian football supremo Mohamed bin Hammam was banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption following a two-day hearing of FIFA\u2019s ethics committee.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old Qatari, the president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), had been accused of trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $40,000 cash gifts to Caribbean football officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe official Mr Bin Hammam is hereby banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national or international level for life,\u201d ethics committee deputy chairman Petrus Damaseb announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Bin Hammam did not attend the hearing, which took place behind closed doors at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, but he told AFP in a telephone conversation on Saturday evening that he intended to appeal.<\/p>\n

He specified that the first step would consist of making an appeal to FIFA, but he has previously declared that he is prepared to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and, if necessary, the civil courts.<\/p>\n

Bin Hammam, the most high-ranking FIFA figure to be convicted of corruption, also reacted to the decision on his blog by publishing a scanned copy of a personal letter sent to him by FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2008.<\/p>\n

In the letter, which Blatter addressed to \u201cMy dear brother,\u201d Bin Hammam highlighted a phrase in which the 75-year-old Swiss had written: \u201cWithout you, dear Mohamed, none of this would ever have been possible\u201d.<\/p>\n

Below the letter were the words: \u201cThis is only the battle, not the war\u2026\u201d \u2014 suggesting that he holds Blatter at least partly responsible for his fate.<\/p>\n

The head of Bin Hammam\u2019s legal team, Eugene Gulland, read out a statement from him after the verdict was announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Bin Hammam rejects the findings of the FIFA ethics committee hearing and maintains his innocence,\u201d said Gulland. \u201cHe will continue to fight his case through the legal routes that are open to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FIFA ethics committee has apparently based its decision on so-called \u2018circumstantial evidence\u2019, which our case has clearly demonstrated was bogus and founded on lies told by senior FIFA officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whistle-blowers said Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials to vote for him by distributing cash-stuffed envelopes during a Caribbean Football Union (CFU) meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on May 10, 2011.<\/p>\n

Former FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jack Warner was also charged over his alleged role in the affair, but his resignation from FIFA last month prompted the organisation to drop all the charges against him.<\/p>\n

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