Former FIFA executive committee member Amos Adamu of Nigeria faces a second ban for unethical conduct.
The judging chamber of the FIFA ethics committee says it has opened proceedings after ethics prosecutors requested a two-year ban for charges including conflict of interest.
Details were not specified, though Adamu was investigated in a Michael Garcia-led probe of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests.
Adamu was an executive committee member in 2010 when Russia and Qatar won hosting rights. He could not vote while suspended by the ethics committee for seeking bribes in an undercover sting by British newspaper The Sunday Times.
Adamu was later banned for three years and lost his positions with FIFA and the Confederation of African Football.
The judging chamber says Adamu can request a hearing.
Adamu was Director General of the Nigerian National Sports Commission for ten years before being redeployed in November 2008.
Prior his appointment as Director General, Adamu was the Director of Sports of the ministry for 10 years.
As of January 2009, Adamu was a member of FIFA’s 24-man executive committee.
He was scheduled to appear in a Nigerian court to press a claim for £2.3 million damages he had laid 15 months earlier against a newspaper that published allegations of corruption.
In August 2009, Adamu stated that problems in Nigerian sports since his redeployment had vindicated him.
On 17 October 2010, It was reported in the UK Sunday Times that he allegedly agreed to receive £500,000 in order to influence the voting procedure with his vote for the 2018 FIFA World Cup bid. He denied any wrongdoing.
An investigation by FIFA banned him and Reynald Temarii from soccer administration.
In November 2010 Adamu received a three-year ban and 10,000 Swiss franc fine from FIFA Ethics Committee after being found guilty of breaching bribery rules.
