Embattled CAF president Ahmad Ahmad is currently swimming trouble waters as FIFA continues to investigates allegations leveled against him. Recent reports revealed that Mr Ahmad received two sets of expenses, claiming to be in two different countries, for the same nine-day period during the 2018 World Cup held in Russia.

According to documents, the FIFA vice-president twice claimed for payments from African football’s ruling body, CAF, for work carried out between 23 June and 1 July.

The documents indicated he signed for daily allowances citing his location to be Egypt for time in review – before later appending his signature to a document which affirmed he was in Russia at the same time.

As a vice-president of football’s world governing body, Mr Ahmad should have been paid his daily World Cup allowance of $450 by FIFA since they organise the tournament – meaning he may have received three sets of payments for the nine-day spell in question.

CAF, whose headquarters are in the Egyptian capital Cairo, has no role in organising the event.

In June, FIFA and CAF announced that Secretary General of CAF would be detailed to oversee administrative reform in the governance of African football’s ruling body from 1 August, which places Senegalese Fatma Samoura as a General Delegate to CAF the first in the 115-year history of FIFA, which has never had recourse before to help guide the administration of a confederation.

Mr Ahmad, who took charge of African football in March 2017, is currently being investigated by both Fifa’s Ethics Committee itself and by French anti-corruption authorities – with an unusual kit deal involving a French gym equipment supplier among the lines of inquiry.

Although Ahmad Ahmad has denied any wrongdoing, He has stated clearly that his answers are reserved for the Ethics Committee only.