Spain’s Uefa vice-president Ángel Villar Llona has been
fined 25,000 Swiss francs (£16,000) for failing to cooperate with an
investigation into the 2018 World Cup bidding process.
A statement from the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s
ethics committee said: “Mr Villar Llona failed to behave in accordance with the
general rules of conduct applicable to football officials in the context of the
investigations conducted by the then chairman of the investigatory chamber of
the Fifa ethics committee regarding the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cup bids.
The American lawyer Michael Garcia carried out an investigation into the 2018
and 2022 World Cup bids – Spain and Portugal bid jointly for 2018 along with
England, Belgium/Holland jointly and the eventual winners Russia.
Villar Llona initially refused to cooperate
but later did so.
As he subsequently expressed his commitment to collaborate and
demonstrated a willingness to cooperate, he has been sanctioned with a warning
and a fine of CHF 25,000.
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