Sepp Blatter has been provisionally suspended for 90 days by FIFA's ethics committee, according to reports.
It comes after the committee met to discuss the cases of the FIFA president and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini.
The decision - which was apparently revealed to Sky Sports by a close friend - is yet to be ratified by the adjudicatory arm of the world governing body.
Ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert will decide the fates of Blatter and Platini, who were questioned as part of a Swiss criminal investigation last week.
The UEFA president is being investigated by Swiss prosecutors and FIFA's ethics committee over a £1.35million payment signed off by Blatter in February 2011, apparently for work as technical advisor carried out between 1999 and 2002.
Platini insists he does not feel the need publicly justify the payment.
Abdoulaye Makhtar Diop, the ethics committee member from Senegal, confirmed the meeting in a statement and spokesman Marc Tenbuecken told AP: "We are strictly limited in our possibilities to communicate ongoing procedures."
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