Confederation of African
Football (CAF) announced in a statement on Sunday that a once
celebrated assistant Kenyan referee, Marwa Range who was listed to
officiate in the 2018 World Cup in Russia has been banned for life for
accepting bribe.
An
investigative story by a Ghanian journalist Anas Aremeyaw, uncovered
Marwa Range accepting a $6,000 (about 5,100 euros) bribe in a hotel
room.
The journalist posed as
a Ghanaian football official when he approached Marwa at the 2018
African Nations Championship in Morroco and filmed him accepting bribe
at a hotel room. He was consequently removed from the 63 assistant
referees’ list for the ongoing 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
According to the
statement, Marwa Range and 22 other referees were affected by the CAF
clean-up with Togolese Yanissou Bebou and Gambian Jallow Ebrima banned
for 10 years each, Ivory Coast referee Denis Dembele, got a six-year
ban, 10 Ghanaians and one Liberian were temporarily banned pending
appearances before a CAF disciplinary board on August 5, and seven match
officials got suspended between two and five years.
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