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FIFA ban two committee members

Four other officials were also banned and fined in an unprecedented move by football's world governing body, which has been shaken by the case and is under huge pressure to show that the contest will be clean and transparent.

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Nigerian Amos Adamu was banned from all football related activities for three years and fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,130) for breaches of five articles of FIFA's ethics code including one on bribery.

In 2006, Botswana's Bhamjee was sent home from the World Cup in Germany and subsequently quit the executive committee for selling match tickets at three times their face value.

"For as long as I am in the ethics committee, we will have a zero tolerance policy for all violations of standards," said its chairman Claudio Sulser after a three-day hearing.

"We don't want cheaters, we don't want doping, we don't want abuses to be accepted," added Sulser, a former Switzerland international.

He added: "The damage caused to FIFA's image is very great. When one talks of FIFA, there is generally a negative attitude out there, talk of corruption."

FIFA said Adamu and Temarii had breached general ethics rules as well as article 9.1 which demands "fiduciary duty" to the sport's governing body.

Adamu was also found to be in breach of article 11.1 which reads: "Officials may not accept bribes; in other words, any gifts or other advantages that are offered, promised or sent to them to incite breach of duty or dishonest conduct for the benefit of a third party shall be refused."