Guyana football chief summoned to FIFA hearing

Football's world governing body, FIFA, has summoned Colin Klass, the President of the Guyana Football Federation, to a hearing on Friday after he was provisionally suspended last month.

Klass will answer charges relating to US$40,000 bribes allegedly offered by former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam.

Fifteen other Caribbean officials under investigation are awaiting hearing dates at FIFA headquarters.

However, Klass was the only one of the 16 to be suspended pending a hearing after FIFA, cited "consideration of the specific information received on this matter."

Klass, a member of FIFA’s Futsal and Beach Soccer Committee, attended the Caribbean Football Union meeting in Trinidad and Tobago in May where Bin Hammam allegedly offered the voters US$40,000 payments to back his later-abandoned election challenge to FIFA president Joseph ‘Sepp’ Blatter.