FA Referee suspended after arrest

Dean Mohareb has been removed from the Football Association’s referee department after he was arrested for the 2nd time in 4 months. He was the senior member of the Referee Department and the FA’s national referee development manager. Mohareb was taken into police custody after he was seen changing the course of investigation related to computer hacking and the dissemination of private information.

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Greater Manchester police delivered a statement which said, “On Thursday 7 February 2013, a 30-year-old man answered bail in relation to an offence of computer hacking. He was further arrested on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and has been released on bail pending further inquiries. He was arrested as part of an investigation into computer hacking and the dissemination of private information. Inquiries are continuing.”

Mohareb was first arrested after the complaints from a former FA employee, Janie Frampton that he hacked into her account and also leaked some of her private E-mails. The CID is now working on this case.

Janie Frampton was suspended from the post as the referee manager after many reports were published in the press, which claimed that she had offered FA Cup semi-final tickets to a flight steward so that she could get free flight upgrades for herself and three other referees.

The leaked E-mails were sent to many senior dignitaries like the Fifa president Sepp Blatter, calling for Frampton to be sacked.