FIFA ethics committee member Professor Dr Sundra Rajoo has resigned, a week after he was suspended from the post following a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission probe, said the world football body.

His resignation as a deputy chairman of the panel’s adjudicatory chamber is effective immediately, FIFA said in a statement, which provided no further details.

Sundra could not be reached for comment.

He was one of the five deputy chairmen of the independent committee, which is responsible for investigating possible infringements of FIFA’s code of ethics.

Since 2012, the committee has been divided into two chambers – investigatory and adjudicatory.

The adjudicatory chamber reviews the investigatory chamber’s reports and decides whether a case should proceed. It also has the right to return reports to the investigatory chamber or carry out further investigations on its own.

Sundra was arrested last week by MACC following claims he had used government funds to induce ministers to extend his contract with the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC).

The allegations were made in an anonymous letter addressed to the anti-graft agency and copied to Attorney-General Tommy Thomas, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun, Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, Malaysian Bar president George Varughese and other senior government officials.

MACC, however, failed to secure a remand order from the Putrajaya magistrates’ court, which ruled that the agency has no jurisdiction to detain Sundra, an officer protected by the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1992 (Act 485).

Sundra resigned as AIAC director following his arrest. – November 29, 2018.