Fifa honorary president Joao Havelange resigns over bribery allegations The long-awaited report by Fifa's ethics committee into the scandal involving collapsed marketing partners ISL has named Havelange and two former executive committee members Ricardo Teixeira and Nicolas Leoz as receiving bribes. All three have now resigned from their roles. The Fifa report also calls current president Sepp Blatter's handling of the scandal "clumsy" but says it did not breach ethics rules. The report states that in 1997, Blatter authorised the transfer of 1.5million Swiss francs to Havelange after ISL mistakenly sent it to Fifa. But Blatter, who was then general secretary of the organisation when Havelange was president, told the ethics investigation "at that time he did not suspect the payment was a commission." The report states: "President Blatter's conduct could not be classified in any way as misconduct with regard to any ethics rules. The conduct of President Blatter may have been clumsy because there could be an internal need for clarification, but this does not lead to any criminal or ethical misconduct. Blatter immediately issued a statement welcoming being cleared of misconduct. He said: "I also note with satisfaction that this report confirms that 'President Blatter's conduct could not be classified in any way as misconduct with regard to any ethics rules'. I have no doubt that Fifa, thanks to the governance reform process that I proposed, now has the mechanisms and means to ensure that such an issue - which has caused untold damage to the reputation of our institution - does not happen again.