Former president of the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) Marco Polo Del Nero has been "banned for life from all football-related activities" for corruption, FIFA announced on Friday.
Del Nero (77 years old), president of the powerful CBF since April 2015, must also pay a fine of one million Swiss francs (835,200 euros).
Del Nero was convicted by FIFA's internal justice (ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber) for receiving bribes from sports sponsorship companies in exchange for awarding lucrative television rights contracts for South American tournaments (Copa America, Copa Libertadores, and Copa do Brasil).
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The Brazilian has been found guilty of "corruption," "offering and receiving gifts or other benefits," "conflict of interest," and "lack of loyalty" to FIFA's Code of Ethics.
Del Nero officially took over the reins of the CBF in April 2015, shortly before the spectacular arrest of seven FIFA officials in Zurich in late May - including his predecessor José Maria Marin - which marked the beginning of the worst crisis in FIFA's history.
FIFA opened an investigation against Del Nero on November 23, 2015, and the executive was provisionally suspended on December 15, 2017.