2015 FIFA corruption case to dismiss Jérôme Valcke as FIFA Secretary General and to terminate his employment relationship. On 26 February 2016, an extraordinary FIFA Congress was held and elected UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino as the new president of FIFA while also passing a major reform package. On 29 May 2015 Sepp Blatter won re-election to the FIFA presidency at the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich amid growing criticism over his position. Four days later, however, he announced that he would continue as president only until a new election would be conducted at a 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress on 26 February 2016. Blatter
FIFA Ethics Committee 2012, the FIFA Executive Committee decided to establish two independent entities, the "Investigatory Chamber" and the "Adjudicatory Chamber", headed by experienced and independent legal professionals. The Ethics Committee is allowed to investigate present as well as previous allegations. In 2016, committee member Juan Pedro Damiani was being subjected to an internal investigation over the legal assistance he had provided as a lawyer to Eugenio Figueredo, a football official who had been charged by US authorities with wire fraud and money laundering, as part of the 2015 FIFA corruption case. After a preliminary investigation was opened by the Ethics Committee's Investigatory