On this day in 2015, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, Secretary General Jerome Valcke and UEFA President Michel Platini were suspended for 90 days from all football related activity by FIFA’s Ethics Committee.
World football’s governing body was hit with a major scandal in 2015 after United State federal prosecutors disclosed evidence of corruption by FIFA officials and associates. Swiss authorities arrested seven high ranking officials, including vice presidents Eugenio Figueredo and Jeffrey Webb, in May that year from a hotel in Zurich. The charges drawn up by the federal prosecutors alleged that FIFA was involved in widespread corruption that spanned nearly two decades, involving broadcast and marketing deals, World Cup bids, and various other illegal transactions.