According to South Atlantic news agency MercoPress, Luis Moreno Ocampo, 66, is expected to be confirmed to the role in June. He will be tasked with investigating allegations of corruption and breaches of ethics rules.Mr Ocampo’s office will bring charges while a separate arm will be tasked with judging the cases.

Corruption allegations

The appointment follows a large-scale overhaul in the way that football’s governing body deals with corruption, which in turn followed a series of allegations that have hit the organisation over the past 18 months.
Bidding for the World Cup Competitions of 2018 and 2012 – which were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively – received heavy criticism, while the 2011 Fifa presidential election drew criticism as Sepp Blatter ran unopposed to secure his fourth consecutive term.

Insufficient sanctions

The new committee was launched following a report by Fifa anti-corruption advisor, Swiss professor Mark Pieth, who labelled past investigations into corruption in the organisation as ‘unsatisfactory’. He also noted that sanctions imposed where corruption had been uncovered were ‘insufficient and clearly unconvincing’.
Mr Ocampo -- first appointed as chief prosecutor of the ICC in 2003 -- is scheduled to leave his post at The Hague next month.