FIFA President Gianni Infantino arrives to attend the inauguration session of 27th AFC Congress in Manama, Bahrain May 08, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
MANAMA (Reuters) - FIFA has given no explanation for ousting the two heads of its Ethics Committee, but the move has led some to point the finger at president Gianni Infantino and left those hoping for reform at world football's governing body feeling uneasy.
FIFA's decision not to renew the mandate of chief ethics investigator Cornel Borbely and chief ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert - the men who banned former FIFA head Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from the game - came at Tuesday's meeting of its ruling council.
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