FIFA has dismissed a report that its ethics committee had started an investigation against the organisation's president Gianni Infantino before he choreographed the sudden removal of the committee's bosses last month.
The chairmen of the committee's "adjudicatory'' and "investigatory'' chambers -- Swiss prosecutor Cornel Borbely and German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, respectively -- were replaced without warning at FIFA's annual congress in Bahrain.
Both had hoped for and expected to be given second four-year terms having started to make apparent progress in sanctioning football officials guilty of bribery, fraud and other breaches of FIFA's ethics code.