Exclusive - FIFA's Blatter is still being paid his salary despite ban from world soccer

FIFA's suspended president Sepp Blatter leaves after a news conference in Zurich, Switzerland, December 21, 2015. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

MIAMI (Reuters) - FIFA's Sepp Blatter may have been banned for eight years from the game but he is still receiving his president's salary from world soccer's governing body, a spokesman for FIFA's Audit and Compliance Committee told Reuters on Monday.

Blatter was suspended for 90 days by FIFA on Oct 8 and then banned from the game for eight years last month for ethics violations over a $2 million payment FIFA made to European soccer boss Michel Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011.