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A Former Guatemalan judge Hector Trujillo has been banned from football for life by the FIFA Ethics Committee for corruption and bribery.
Trujillo was the first official to be sentenced in the United States as part of the widespread criminal probe into wrongdoing within world football's governing body.
The 63-year-old was sentenced to eight months in prison in October after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy.
He was also ordered to pay $415,000 in restitution.
Trujillo received kickbacks in exchange for awarding contracts to companies for the media and marketing rights to the FIFA World Cup, when he was secretary general of the Guatemalan Football Federation.
He thus violated article 21 of the FIFA Code of Ethics,
Trujillo was arrested in December 2015 in Florida, during a Disney cruise with his family.
He spent more than a month in prison before he was freed on $4 million bail.
The investigation into corruption within FIFA in the US has seen a total of 42 officials and entities indicted by the United States Department of Justice.
