AFP, GENEVA: FIFA denied on Friday reports in German media that president Gianni Infantino was under investigation for a possible ethics violation.
Die Welt newspaper reported that Infantino had improperly ordered the destruction of the minutes of a FIFA executive committee meeting held at last month's congress in Mexico city.
According to the paper, FIFA's independent ethics committee was looking at the issue and could impose a 90-day ban on the new president if the allegation was confirmed.
But a spokesman for the ethics committee's investigatory arm, Roman Geiser told AFP that "there are no formal proceedings going on against Mr. Infantino".
FIFA spokeswoman Delia Fischer, in a separate statement emailed to AFP, said the allegations were baseless.
“The email exchange that makes mention of the deletion of audio files refers to a copy of the original audio file of the meeting that was improperly stored on a local drive,” she said.
“This mention does not refer to the officially archived audio file. That file exists and is properly saved at FIFA.”