International Olympic Committee
The Lausanne-based body governing the Olympic movement, of which Gianni Infantino is a member.
The IOC's Ethics Commission rejected a FairSquare complaint against FIFA president Gianni Infantino on 24 July 2026, ruling the case fell outside its jurisdiction over dealings involving the Olympic body itself.
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Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, the International Olympic Committee governs the Olympic movement and oversees the National Olympic Committees of its member states. Kirsty Coventry, a former Zimbabwean swimmer, took office as IOC president in June 2025, becoming the first woman, first Zimbabwean and first African to hold the post. The IOC set up an independent Ethics Commission in 1999, the first such body in international sport, to police breaches of its Code of Ethics by members and officials.
Gianni Infantino has sat as a co-opted IOC member since January 2020, giving any ethics referral against him unusual institutional weight even when, as in this case, the commission ultimately found the complaint outside its REMIT.
The committee rejects an ethics complaint
FairSquare, a London human rights group, pledged on 8 July to bring a case against FIFA president Gianni Infantino to the committee's own ethics machinery, over the Peace Prize FIFA had given Donald Trump, a complaint that had sat unanswered inside FIFA for seven months; IOC president Kirsty Coventry said a day earlier that no such filing had yet reached the committee .
The Ethics Commission rejected the complaint on 24 July, ten days after FairSquare escalated the case from FIFA's own internal ethics process. The rejection turned on jurisdiction rather than the substance of the allegations, since the commission's rules cover only dealings directly with the Olympic body itself, leaving the underlying complaint over migrant-worker treatment with FIFA's slower internal track .