October 4 – Kuwait’s Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, once a major player at FIFA, has lodged a case against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) following his ban for “influencing” the election of his brother to a key Olympic post.
Sheikh Ahmad was banned from the IOC for three years in July after it found he had an “undeniable impact” on Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) elections in which his brother, Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, was appointed president.
Sheikh Ahmad has denied any wrongdoing and CAS confirmed both he and Sheikh Talal had filed separate cases against the IOC.
Back in 2017, Sheikh Ahmad resigned from the FIFA Council after being drawn into the widespread corruption probe that brought FIFA to its knees.
The sheikh, who had been seeking re-election at the time, was suspected of being a co-conspirator in the case of former Guam FA boss Richard Lai. He denied any wrongdoing.
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