World football governing body FIFA on Monday announced it has dismissed the Football Association of Malaysia 's appeals over the "forgery and falsification" saga -- and has upheld the punishments it originally handed down last month.

Malaysian football was thrown into disarray at the end of September when FIFA ruled they had breached Article 22 of their disciplinary code, pertaining to "having used forged and/or falsified documents in FIFA proceedings".

These allegedly-fake documents, which were originally used as evidence that seven overseas-born players had grandparents of Malaysian heritage, and subsequently aided the process to gain them citizenship.

The players -- Gabriel Palmero , Facundo Garcés , Rodrigo Holgado , Imanol Machuca , João Figueiredo , Hector Hevel an

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