IPNEWS:—-Revokes FC Fassell Membership to all Football Related Activities
The Liberia Football Association (LFA) Grievance and Disciplinary Committee has officially expelled Cassell Anthony Kuoh and revoked his membership from all football-related activities in the country. This decisive ruling comes after the LFA found the FC FASSELL CEO and President guilty of multiple severe structural and statutory violations.
The disciplinary committee’s investigation revealed that Kuoh breached several internal governance protocols.
Specifically, he committed undue third-party interference by bypassing the LFA’s specialized internal dispute mechanisms. Instead of resolving sports-related conflicts through the proper channels, Kuoh took an internal football election dispute to an ordinary civil court to seek an injunction against the association.
The LFA Acting Chairman Jenkins Pelenah stated that Kuoh explicitly violated the following provisions:
- LFA Statutes: Articles 2, 18.3, and 19
- FIFA Statutes: Article 51
- Enforced Action: Chapter 15, Article 27 of the LFA Approved Statutes []
As a result of this ruling, Kuoh faces a complete ban across multiple tiers of soccer administration:
- Total loss of all membership rights within the national association.
- Barred from participating in any activities under the LFA jurisdiction.
- Prohibited from taking part in regional and continental football operations governed by the West African Football Union (WAFU) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF). []
This escalation follows months of high-profile friction regarding Kuoh’s eligibility to run in the LFA presidential elections, where his candidacy was initially blocked due to prior external criminal convictions.
Cassell Anthony Kuoh begin a freeman from U.S. prison and returned to Liberia in May 2023 after serving an 87-month federal prison sentence for orchestrating a $9.5 million investment fraud scheme involving fictitious gold and diamonds. Upon completing his prison term in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was placed in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities and deported back to Liberia.
Kuoh pleaded guilty in March 2017 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Between 2012 and 2016, his company, Phoenix Mining and Investment Group, defrauded foreign investors by pretending to purchase, refine, and export Liberian minerals to the U.S.
He was sentenced to more than 7 years (87 months) and ordered to pay $16.2 million in restitution.
