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Kuala Lumpur, July 17 (IANS) The Asian football governing body has handed its former head Mohamed Bin Hammam a 30-day ban for alleged financial irregularities. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in a statement said they made the decision upon receiving the report of an independent audit of the confederation's account, reports Xinhua. The audit concerned "the negotiation and execution of certain contracts and with the financial transactions made in and out of AFC bank accounts and his personal account during the tenure of Mr. Bin Hammam's presidency," it said. Upon receiving the report, the AFC Disciplinary Committee provisionally banned Bin Hammam "from taking part in any kind of football activity (administrative, sports or any other) in the area of jurisdiction of the AFC until the Disciplinary Committee reaches a decision on the merits in the present matter," the statement read. Bin Hammam, 63, has been fighting charges he tried to buy FIFA delegate votes in campaigning to unseat the world body's long-standing president Sepp Blatter in a leadership election last year. The scandal earned him a FIFA life ban from football and he was provisionally replaced after nine years as president of Asia's football governing body pending appeals.
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