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FIFA corruption fight ‘setback’ by purge of ethics team
10 years agoSunil Gulati (C) President of the United States Football Federation and Angel Maria Villar (R) President of the Spanish Football Federation (R) chat as they leave a meeting of the FIFA council in Manama on May 9, 2017. A five-hour long meeting of the all-powerful FIFA Council in Bahrain, chaired by president Gianni Infantino, has decided to replace German Hans-Joachim Eckert with Vasilios Skuris of Greece. / AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ
FIFA's decision to remove its ethics team was a "setback in the fight against corruption", one of those dismissed, investigator Cornel Borbely, told a press conference in Bahrain on Wednesday.