In a statement, the Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee said Mbaga had also been fined CHF200,000 (£151,000/$200,000/€176,000).

FIFA did not reveal any exact details but confirmed the Tanzanian official had breached the bribery article of the 2009 edition of the governing body's ethics code.

Mbaga reportedly has links to convicted match-fixer Wilson Perumal, who helped ensure corrupt referees were appointed to certain matches so their outcome could be manipulated as part of a betting scam.

Warm-up matches before South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup were among those fixed by Perumal, who has twice served prison terms for match-fixing.

"In its decision, the adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Mbaga had breached art. 11 (bribery) of the 2009 edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics and banned him for life from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level," FIFA said in a statement.

Mbaga becomes the latest match official sanctioned for bribery.

In January, Niger's Ibrahim Chaibou - who famously awarded three penalties for handball in one of South Africa's warm-up matches for the 2010 World Cup - was banned for life.

Ghanaian referee Joseph Odartei Lamptey was given the same punishment in March 2017.