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Bin Hammam provisionally suspended by FIFA

FIFA said in a statement that Bin Hammam would be banned for 90 days while its ethics committee assessed the prospects of collecting further evidence over allegations that he tried to bribe Caribbean officials in the run-up to last year's election.

It will also investigate allegations of financial wrongdoing while he was head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

CAS last week upheld Bin Hammam's appeal against a life ban, saying FIFA's evidence had been insufficient.

However, it said the decision was not "an affirmative finding of innocence" for Bin Hammam, and that the case could be re-opened with new evidence.

Bin Hammam, a former member of FIFA's executive committee, challenged Sepp Blatter for the presidency of football's world ruling body last year.

Blatter was subsequently re-elected unopposed for a fourth term as FIFA president, while Bin Hammam was found guilty of breaking seven articles of FIFA's ethics code, including one on bribery.