Sierra Leone captain Ibrahim Kargbo is among 15 players and officials
who have been suspended indefinitely over allegations of match-fixing.
Three referees and another eight officials, including Rodney Michael, are the others to have been suspended.
The allegations relate to a Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa in 2008 which ended goalless.
A media statement, jointly signed by sports minister Paul Kamara and Sierra Leone Football Association president Isha Johansen, said "credible and tangible information" had been received on the alleged involvement of the group in match-fixing.
It added that the three players who had been called up to play in Sierra Leone's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles in Freetown on Saturday have been withdrawn.
BBC Sport understands two players in the Sierra Leone squad, who are not implicated in the allegations, have threatened to leave the camp in protest at the treatment of their colleagues.
Football administrator Michael was controversially disqualified from running for FA President in August last year on allegations that he had links to a sports-betting company.
The former Leone Stars skipper said he was "in total shock" and referred to it as "a political interference into the running of football".
Speaking to Reuters from London, he called the suspension "a witch-hunt because I am leading a crusade for the FA to hold its annual congress which is stated in the constitution to (be held) not later than August this year".
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