Fifa president Sepp Blatter faces a 90 day suspension from football from tomorrow if the governing body's ethics judge backs a prosecutor's recommendation.
Members of Fifa's ethics committee are planning to push ahead with the disciplinary action after criminal proceedings were opened against football's top administrator in Switzerland.
He is accused of signing a an unfavourable deal for Fifa and making a £1.6 million "disloyal payment" to Uefa president Michel Platini. Both men deny any wrong doing and say they will be exonerated by the investigation.
Mr Blatter's long-term confidant Klaus Stoehlker said the decision by judge Hans-Joachim Eckert on the provisional suspension was expected by tomorrow.
"There is no final decision, this is a recommendation from the lower part of the Ethics Committee to the upper part," said Mr Stoehlker, who added that Blatter had been informed of the development.
"President Blatter will be in his office at Fifa tomorrow," he said.
If Mr Blatter is suspended, African football head Issa Hayatou from Cameroon, would become the interim president.
Fifa is already without its secretary general Jerome Valcke who was suspended last month after allegations he was involved in a scheme to sell 2014 World Cup tickets at a marked-up price. Valcke denied the charges.
Last weekWorld Cup sponsors, Coca Cola, McDonald's Visa and Anheuser-Busch called for Mr Blatter to resign immediately for the 'benefit of the game.'
He rejected their pleas.
In June, Mr Blatter, 79, announced he would stand down after an election to choose his replacement on February 26.
On Wednesday he told a German magazine that he was being "condemned without there being any evidence for wrongdoing".
Blatter's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
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