Nigerian Adamu has been suspended from all football-related activity for three years and and Oceania rep Temarii one year overallegations of corruption regarding World Cup votes.

The pair were implicated in a Sunday Times investigation which accused the duo of accepting money in return for their vote in the bidding for the World Cup, with reporters from the newspaper posing as representatives of the United States' 2022 World Cup bid.

Adamu has already indicated his intention to appeal against the verdict delivered today by the chairman of FIFA's ethics committee Claudio Sulser.

Adamu was fined 10,000 Swiss francs (£6,341) and Temarii 5,000 Swiss francs (£3,170) as part of the sanction against them.

Temarii - as Oceanie representative on FIFA's executive committee - was Australia's only guaranteed vote when the final ballot takes place to decide which nation hosts the competition.

FIFA have now confirmed the pair will not be replaced for the ballot and instead the decision will be now be taken by the remaining 22 ExCo reps.

In a separate investigation, the ethics committee found insufficient evidence of collusion between the bid teams of Spain-Portugal 2018 and Qatar 2022.

The FIFA ethics committee had also been conducting an investigation into allegations that the two bid teams had been colluding to trade votes, against bidding regulations.

However, it was announced today the committee "did not find sufficient grounds to reach a conclusion that there was any collusion".