Another tough punishment for Blatter. He must not be in football for another six years, he will pay a million

His original sentence expires in October, when the new one enters into force for six years and eight months. Former FIFA Secretary General Jérome Valcke, who will be sentenced in October 2025, was also punished in the same way.

The commission said Blatter had violated the code of ethics by accepting 23 million Swiss francs in extraordinary payments and awarding 46 million rewards himself to Valcke, former FIFA vice president Julie Grondon and former CFO Markus Kattner. These payments are related to the 2010 and 2014 World Championships.

Blatter led FIFA from 1998 to 2015, when he resigned after a large-scale corruption scandal broke out. In October of the same year, he was suspended by FIFA’s ethics committee, along with then-UEFA chairman Michel Platini, over a suspicious transfer of two million Swiss francs in 2011. In February 2016, the appeals commission lowered their eight-year football ban to six years.

The 85-year-old Swiss, who has recently struggled with health problems, is facing investigations from the Swiss authorities on suspicion of corruption during his time at the helm of FIFA. Last December, FIFA also filed a criminal complaint against him for the loss-making project of the Zurich Football Museum.

“It is a painful and incomprehensible decision. The Ethics Committee as it stands has nothing to do with an independent body, it is an extended hand of the FIFA chairman and his parallel judiciary,” Blatter said through his spokesman on the sentence, which is recovering from December’s heart surgery.

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