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Beckenbauer punished by FIFA Ethics Committee

FIFA's Ethics Committee has given Franz Beckenbauer a warning and a fine for his initial failure to cooperate with an investigation.

The adjudicatory chamber of FIFA's Ethics Committee has warned Franz Beckenbauer and fined him after he failed to cooperate with an investigation into bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

The sanction comes into force immediately for football official Beckenbauer, who was was provisionally banned from all football-related activity for 90 days over the issue in June 2014.

"Mr. Beckenbauer failed to cooperate with an Ethics Committee investigation conducted by the then chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee regarding the 2018/2022 FIFA World Cup bids despite repeated requests for his assistance.