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Jerome Valcke Banned from Football-Related Activities for 12 Years

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Jerome Valcke, the former secretary general of FIFA, was banned from all football-related activities for 12 years by the FIFA Ethics Committee on Friday.

Richard Conway of BBC Sport passed along the news. Ben Rumsby of the Daily Telegraph reported the offenses noted in the ruling included "travelling at FIFA's expense purely for sightseeing reasons" and trying to "obstruct the ongoing proceedings against him by attempting to delete or deleting several files and folders."