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Sepp Blatter was banned from FIFA following the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal, during which the United States government indicted current and former FIFA officials for bribery and money laundering. FIFA's Ethics Committee initially banned him for eight years in December 2015; a FIFA appeals committee later reduced that ban to six years. He received a second six-year ban in March 2021 and was fined CHF 1,000,000 after a probe into massive bonus payments.
Sepp Blatter served as FIFA president from 1998 to 2015, a period of seventeen years. He was first elected at the 51st FIFA Congress on the 8th of June 1998 and was re-elected in 2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015 before resigning on the 2nd of June 2015 amid the ongoing corruption scandal.
FIFA's marketing partner ISL collapsed in 2001, and a subsequent investigation found that FIFA officials including Blatter's predecessor João Havelange and former Executive Committee members Ricardo Teixeira and Nicolás Leoz had accepted illegal payments between 1992 and May 2000 in connection with World Cup television rights. A 2013 FIFA Ethics Committee report cleared Blatter of misconduct, though a 2012 Council of Europe report stated it would be "difficult to imagine" that he had been unaware of the payments.
Awarding the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar drew sustained criticism, partly because of allegations that Blatter had struck an informal deal with UEFA head Michel Platini to steer the 2018 event to Europe in exchange for support. The illegality of homosexuality in Qatar also led to criticism after Blatter joked that gay fans "should refrain from any sexual activities." Blatter himself later called the Qatar award a mistake.
American goalkeeper Hope Solo accused Sepp Blatter of sexual assault at the FIFA Ballon d'Or awards in 2013. In a November 2017 interview with the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, she said Blatter grabbed her just before they presented an award together to Abby Wambach. Blatter's spokesman Thomas Renggli called the allegation "ridiculous."
Swiss authorities formally charged Blatter with fraud and falsifying documents on the 2nd of November 2021, in connection with improper payments made to UEFA president Michel Platini. Blatter and Platini were cleared of the charges; after the verdict was appealed by Swiss federal prosecutors, both men were acquitted a second time in March 2025.