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FIFA have advised Zifa that all cases of individuals implicated in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal are guaranteed equal treatment by the world football governing body as it brings the long-drawn out saga to a close. The local football body want Fifa to endorse suspensions it passed on a number of individuals, giving such sanctions a worldwide effect, but the Zurich organisation want to be furnished with certain documents before it can reach its conclusion.
Fifa have zeroed on 20 individuals — former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya, former Zifa programmes officer Jonathan Musavengana, Sunday Chidzambwa, Method Mwanjali, Thomas Sweswe, Darryl Nyandoro, Guthrie Zhokinyi, Edmore Sibanda, Methembe Ndlovu, Solomon Mugavazi, Kudzi Shaba, Bekithemba Ndlovu, Rodwell Dhlakama, Emmanuel Nyahuma, Clayton Munemo, Godfrey Japajapa, Danisa Phiri, Thomson Matenda, Zenzo Moyo and Hope Chizuzu — and want the association to furnish them with more details on these people.
Fifa want Zifa to provide them with written documentary evidence for each individual case in relation to the following conditions established in Article 137 of the Fifa Disciplinary Committee that: — The person sanctioned has been cited properly — He has had the opportunity to state his case — The decision has been communicated properly (along with any documentary evidence establishing the foregoing).
“Equally, we kindly ask you to follow the aforementioned chronological order (1, 2, 3) for each individual person and to numerate the documentation accordingly for each individual person,” said Fifa.
“Furthermore, we would like to ask you to confirm that Mr Kudzanai Shaba, Mr Hope Chizuzu and Mr Zenzo Moyo were at the time when the sanctions were pronounced against them and are under the jurisdiction of your association and to provide us with the relevant documents attesting to the foregoing.”
Zifa have, in turn, also requested Fifa to furnish them with documents sent by 16 individuals to the world football governing body when it asked them to present their cases with a number of them writing directly to Zurich.
In a letter sent from Zurich on Tuesday to Zifa chief executive, Jonathan Mashingaidze, the deputy secretary of the Fifa Disciplinary Committee, Octavian Bivolaru, advised the local football controlling body that each case would be guaranteed equal treat- ment.
“We acknowledge receipt of your above captioned letter ‘Request for copies of statements sent by sixteen individuals convicted of match-fixing and illegal betting’, dated 26 July 2013, the content of which has been duly noted,” Bivolaru wrote on Tuesday.
“In this regard, we would like to refer to our previous letter dated 25 July 2013, whereby we asked you to provide us, by return, with the relevant written documentary evidence that all conditions for an extension of the sanctions to have worldwide effect to be pronounced were fulfilled in each and all of the individual cases concerning 20 persons sanctioned by your association.
“In this context, your association should send us requested documents and information as mentioned, and as confirmed in the letter from your association dated 29 July 2013.
“Upon receipt of the foregoing documentation and should the chairman of the Disciplinary Committee deem it necessary and appropriate, all the parties involved will have the opportunity to provide position on the statements received from the respective parties.”
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