Former All India Football Federation General Secretary Alberto Colaco was banned by FIFA for three years from any activity related to the game for taking a bribe in a controversial election of an executive committee member of the world body in 2009.
Colaco was handed the ban by the FIFA Ethics Committee for “accepting a payment in the context of the elections” for former Asian Football Confederation chief Mohamed bin Hammam's FIFA executive committee seat in 2009.
FIFA says Colaco was India's voting delegate at the election in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia.