The chairperson of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has rejected the appeal lodged by Mr Keramuudin Karim, the President of the Afghanistan Football Federation, and confirmed in its entirety the decision concerning provisional sanctions taken by the investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee on 12 December 2018.

Consequently, Mr Karim’s provisional ban of 90 days (art. 84 ss. of the 2018 edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics), as decided by the investigatory chamber, is maintained.

The decision taken by the chairperson of the adjudicatory chamber was notified to Mr Karim today.