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Four Caribbean officials banned for corruption

Two other officials were reprimanded and fined by FIFA's ethics committee, one was reprimanded and another five were given warnings, FIFA said in a statement on Friday.

The longest ban from all football-related activity, 18 months, was handed to Franka Pickering, president of the British Virgin Islands FA, who was also fined 500 Swiss francs ($560).

Bin Hammam withdrew his candidacy before the presidential vote, allowing Sepp Blatter to be re-elected for a fourth successive term as head of football's world governing body.

Jean-Bart was injured in last year's earthquake in Haiti and subsequently gave a lengthy interview to CNN describing the destruction.