A life ban has been recommended for former Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) development officer Jonathan Musavengana following investigations into match fixing of international matches in South Africa in 2010.

The investigator, Djimbaraye Bourngar, also recommended life bans for former Togo national team coach Bana Tchanile for alleged bribery and corruption violations and a six-year ban and 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,393) fine for ex-South Africa football chief Kirsten Nematandani over alleged ethics violations connected to fixing international friendlies in 2010.

"The investigations into the three individuals were initiated in relation to their specific conduct in the organisation of several international friendly matches played in South Africa in 2010," Fifa said in a statement.

For Musavengana it is the third time that he has been slapped with a ban from football. Musavengana was fingered as the main culprit in Zimbabwe’s Asiagate controversy as the mastermind behind a tour to Asia in 2009 by the Zimbabwe national men’s team where they deliberately lost matches on the instruction of Wilson Perumal, the mastermind of the betting syndicate that made millions on match results they manipulated. The former programmes officer was pardoned soon after Philip Chiyangwa won ZIFA elections in 2015.

Chiyangwa then imposed another life ban on Musavengana for allegedly plotting to manipulate the outcome of the Zimbabwe national team’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Swaziland in March 2016.

The bans needed further endorsement from FIFA in order to have a global effect but they were never ratified by the world Football body.

The case has now been passed to the Fifa ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber for a verdict and possible sanctions.