Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been banned for 15 years from all positions within the International Olympic Committee over ethics breaches, the Olympic ruling body has decided.
Kuwait's member of the FIFA executive committee Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah leaves after a meeting of the FIFA Council at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File PhotoBERLIN, May 4 - Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been banned for 15 years from all positions within the International Oly mpic Committee over ethics breaches, the Oly mpic ruling body has decided.
"And consequently, to sanction Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah by suspending all the rights, prerogatives and functions deriving from his IOC membership for a period of fifteen years starting from the date of the previous sanction decision by the IOC Executive Board on 27 July 2023." It said he had also violated his oath as a member by contesting last year's IOC Executive Board decision to ban him for three years.
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