Former Guatemalan football federation president Brayan Jimenez (L) exits the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in the Brooklyn borough of New York March 2, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan football chief Brayan Jimenez has been banned from the sport for life for offences which included "bribery and corruption", FIFA's ethics committee said on Monday.
Jimenez, also a former member of a FIFA committee for fair play and social responsibility, was among several dozen officials who were indicted in the United States in 2015, sparking the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the global soccer body.
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