Blatter, Platini and Valcke suspended by FIFA

The pair have been hit with 90-day suspensions, while Jerome Valcke has been given the same punishment and Chung Mong-joon has been banned for a total of six years.

Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and Jerome Valcke have officially been handed 90-day bans by the FIFA Ethics Committee.

Along with the powerful trio, Chung Mong-joon, a South Korean official who has served as vice president of FIFA, has been banned for six years and fined $103,712.

Blatter has come under serious scrutiny in recent months amid investigations into the governing body's conduct from the U.S. Department of Justice, while the Swiss attorney general has opened criminal proceedings against him for alleged intentional…