Former CONCACAF President Austin ‘Jack’ Warner has been banned from all football related activities for life by FIFA's ethics committee.
This follows an investigation into the bidding contest for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Warner is a former FIFA vice-president and executive committee member, but he quit world football's governing body in 2011 after he was suspended over earlier accusations of bribery relating to a presidential election.
The governing body said at the time of his resignation that the "presumption of innocence is maintained."
However, FIFA's ethics committee opened an investigation into Warner earlier this year and said on Tuesday that he "committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF."
The statement from the ethics committee also said: "In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes. The ban is effective from September 25 2015, the date on which the present decision was notified."
The 72 year old Warner is currently fighting extradition on U.S. charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering in the FIFA corruption case. He has to report twice weekly to a police station in Trinidad and Tobago and his passport has been seized.
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