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Zurich — Fifa’s ethics committee has donated 48 luxury watches it recovered from soccer officials to a non-profit organisation.

During a Fifa congress organised on the eve of last year’s Soccer World Cup in Brazil, the Brazilian confederation (CBF) distributed gift bags with the watches to football officials including members of Fifa’s executive committee.

The CBF initially said the Parmigiani watches were given to a group of 65 officials, but the investigatory chamber of the ethics committee said it found evidence that several of them did not receive the watch.

After ruling they were unauthorised gifts, the investigatory chamber of the committee decided against opening disciplinary proceedings against the officials who had received the watch on the condition that they returned it.— Sport24.