Xinhua News Agency, Zurich, March 1st, due to corruption, Zhong David, former vice president of FIFA and former president of Oceania Football Association, was banned from entering the football world in the next six and a half years, at the same time, he was fined 100000 Swiss francs (about 670000 yuan).
On the 1st, FIFA issued a statement saying that after the FIFA ethics committee ruled, during his tenure as the president of Oceania Football Association, David Zhong had behaviors of “giving and receiving gifts” and “interfering in conflicts of interest.
In 2017, FIFA provided Oceania Football Association with 16.8 million dollars to support its construction of a new headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. In April, 2018, FIFA found that Oceania Football Association had violated regulations during the implementation of this project. During the audit investigation, Zhong Dawei announced his resignation as chairman of Oceania Football Association.
Zhong David’s “falling horse” means that since the United States and Swiss prosecutors launched a comprehensive investigation into FIFA corruption cases in May 2015, at that time, five of the eight vice presidents of Fifa had been identified. In addition to the then Fifa president Blatter and secretary general Jerome Valk, several former FIFA senior officials had been punished for corruption.