FIFA remains in tumult following 2015 allegations of corruption, bribery and impropriety football's world governing body.
The organisation's former head, Sepp Blatter, was forced to resign in disgrace after investigators in both Switzerland and the USA began probes into FIFA's affairs.
And although FIFA has sought to downplay scandal following the election of Gianni Infantino as president last year, suspicions continue to dog the organisation.
Those suspicions were exacerbated on Tuesday, after the FIFA Council decided not to renew the mandate of its lead ethics investigator Cornel Borbely and chief ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert.
Their four-year mandates expired this month and the FIFA Council decided not to nominate them as candidates for another term.
They investigated and banned dozens of football officials for ethics violations, which included bribery and corruption. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and ex-UEFA boss Michel Platini were among those to be banned from the sport.
The two men said their ousting was "de facto the end of reforms" at FIFA and a setback for attempts to clean up global football.
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