Ghana has dissolved its national football association after its president was filmed apparently accepting a “cash gift”.
Kwesi Nyantakyi was pictured taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter pretending to be a businessman keen to invest in Ghanaian football.
Mr Nyantakyi is vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and also a member of the Fifa Council.
Since taking charge of the GFA, Mr Nyantakyi has made tackling corruption a major part of his message.
However, the undercover film shows him apparently placing the $65,000 “shopping money” into a black plastic bag. He is under investigation for fraudulently using Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo’s name – by order of the president himself.
The filmmaker’s team had invited Mr Nyantakyi to a luxury hotel in the Middle East with the promise of meeting a wealthy businessman they said was interested in a sponsorship deal with the GFA.
In the film, Mr Nyantakyi went on to both negotiate and write up the sponsorship deal on behalf of the GFA, which could have allowed a cut to go to a company he owned.
Correspondents say that had the fictitious deal gone ahead, he could potentially have made $4.5m from the diversion of funds/BBC.
