FIFA watchdog suspends Blatter, Platini for 90 days

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter (L) shakes hands with UEFA president Michel Platini after being re-elected following a vote to decide on the FIFA presidency in Zurich, on May 29, 2015

A FIFA ethics watchdog on Thursday suspended world body president Sepp Blatter and UEFA leader Michel Platini for 90 days after they were named in a Swiss corruption case.

The independent ethics committee also banned South Korean tycoon, Chung Mong-Joon, like Platini a candidate for the FIFA presidency for six years.

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, already ordered to leave by FIFA over a separate ticketing scandal, was also suspended for 90 days.