A member of FIFA's executive committee caught selling World Cup match tickets on the black market has returned home to Botswana, FIFA said yesterday.

Ismail Bhamjee, 62, left Sunday evening after being told his presence in Germany was no longer desirable, FIFA spokesman Markus Siegler said.

Bhamjee admitted selling 12 tickets for last week's match between England and Trinidad and Tobago in Nuremberg for 300 euroseach, three times the face value.

"I deeply regret this incorrect act and apologise to FIFA for violating the relevant terms and conditions governing the sale of tickets for the 2006 FIFA World Cup," he said in a statement.

FIFA ordered Bhamjee to resign from his World Cup-related duties and leave Germany at the earliest opportunity.

Bhamjee has been a FIFA executive committee member since 1998. He is the president of the Botswana Football Association and serves on the executive committee of Africa's controlling body, CAF.