KUALA LUMPUR – The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) – through its independent committee – has appointed senior Malaysian police official ACP Parusuraman Subramanian as the deputy chairperson of its Investigatory Chamber.
The unit falls under the world football body’s Ethics Committee.
Parusuraman, who is assistant director of resource support coordination at Bukit Aman’s Crime Prevention and Community Security Department, has been assigned to serve in the new position for the 2021-2025 term.
The Ethics Committee, comprising independent representatives, is one of FIFA’s judicial bodies.
It is primarily responsible for investigating possible infringements of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
Since 2012, it has been divided into two separate chambers – the investigatory and the adjudicatory.
Among Parusuraman’s responsibilities will be to hear and decide cases involving ethical violations by any official or football player of a member country of the association as provided under FIFA’s legislation.
He is one of the four deputy chairpersons in the same capacity. He is also among the 209 representatives from countries worldwide after winning 139 votes in the FIFA 2021 Congress held on May 21 in Zurich, Switzerland.
One of the ethics committee's biggest decision was banning former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam from football for life after being found guilty of attempted bribery.
He was accused of attempting to buy votes ahead of 2011's Fifa presidential election. – The Vibes, November 19, 2021
