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Former Fifa President Sepp Blatter. Picture: AFP.

Fifa bribing scandal

Blatter did not speak to US investigators, lawyer says

By Reuters

Sepp Blatter was banned for six years by Fifa’s own ethics committee at the height of a scandal engulfing world soccer’s governing body in 2015.

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