I. INTRODUCTION

1. The appeal is brought by a member of the FIFA Executive Committee – Dr Amos Adamu (hereinafter also the “Appellant”) – against a decision of the FIFA Appeal Committee, which held him responsible for breaching various provisions of the FIFA Code of Ethics (articles 3, 9 and 11). The FIFA Appeal Committee imposed on him a ban from taking part in any football-related activity at national and international level for a period of three years as from 20 October 2010 as well as a fine of CHF 10,000.

2. The specificity of the case lies in the fact that the Appellant was filmed and recorded by hidden cameras and recorders, while meeting twice with undercover Sunday Times journalists posing as lobbyists purporting to support the United States football federation’s bid for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. The video and audio recordings of those meetings (hereinafter “the Recordings”), passed on by the Sunday Times to FIFA, are the basis of FIFA’s case against Dr Amos Adamu.