AlHijjah 24, 1436, Oct 8, 2015, SPA -- FIFA president Joseph Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini - international football's leading administrators - were Thursday provisionally banned from all activities in the game for 90 days. In further sanctions by FIFA's ethics committee, the governing body's secretary general Jerome Valcke - relieved by FIFA of his duties last month - was also suspended for 90 days, while South Korean former FIFA vice-president Chung Mong Joon was banned for six years. The bans on Blatter and Platini by the committee's adjudicatory chamber follow a Swiss criminal investigation against Blatter launched on September 25. As part of the investigation Platini was asked to provide information about a payment of 2 million Swiss francs (about 2 million dollars) signed off by Blatter in 2011. Blatter does not intend to appeal against the ruling, his adviser, Klaus Stoehlker, told dpa.
