LAUSANNE: Former FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon has appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne to challenge his five-year ban for failing to cooperate with FIFA ethics investigators.

CAS has indicated a verdict in early December.

Chung hoped to be a FIFA presidential candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter when an ethics committee investigation of him was announced in 2015.

He was found guilty of failing to cooperate with a FIFA ethics investigation of the 2018-2022 World Cup bidders, which included his native South Korea.

FIFA’s appeal committee eventually imposed a five-year ban, which started in October 2015.

Chung is a member of the family that owns World Cup sponsor Hyundai. His cousin, Chung Mong-gyu, has since been elected to the FIFA Council.

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