New York: Fifa president Sepp Blatter has not been notified of any action taken by the ethics committee of world soccer's governing body, despite a report on Wednesday that he could soon be suspended, lawyers for Blatter said in a statement.
A close friend and former adviser to Blatter said that world soccer's chief faces an imminent 90-day suspension if Fifa's ethics judge supports a prosecutor's recommendation.
A decision was expected by Friday.
In response to the report by Reuters and others, Blatter's lawyers Lorenz Erni and Richard Cullen said they "would expect that the ethics committee would want to hear from the president and his counsel, and conduct a thorough review of the evidence, before making any recommendation to take disciplinary action".
The Fifa president's future was being determined by the governing body's ethics committee at meetings in Zurich, with Blatter at risk of being suspended after a criminal case was opened against him.
Blatter associate Klaus Stoehlker, who has no role at Fifa, said the ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber recommended a 90-day suspension for the sport's most powerful official.
"Blatter has heard that from several sources," Stoehlker said.
"He has not got any message from the committee ... and he is perfectly under control. He is going to the office tomorrow."
Abdoulaye Makhtar Diop, a Senegalese member of the executive committee's adjudicatory chamber, said earlier in a statement that cases involving Blatter and Uefa President Michel Platini were being discussed in Zurich this week.
Ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert will take the final decision on the fates of Blatter and Platini, who were questioned as part of a Swiss criminal investigation last month.
Blatter is a suspect but Platini was questioned as something between a witness and an accused person over a payment he received from Fifa in 2011.
Platini had been considered the favourite to succeed Blatter in the February 26 emergency election prompted by the president's decision in June to quit.
That came four days after Blatter was elected to a fifth, four-year term despite Fifa being plunged into crisis after 14 people were indicted in an American investigation into soccer bribery.
Platini's election prospects could be thwarted by receiving the maximum 90-day suspension from Fifa, with an October 26 deadline for candidacies to be submitted and approved.
If Blatter was forced from power before the election, senior vice-president Issa Hayatou would become interim Fifa leader. But the longtime Confederation of African Football president from Cameroon has his own checkered past.
Hayatou was reprimanded in 2011 by the International Olympic Committee, of which he is also a member, for receiving $20,000 from a sports marketing company in a Fifa kickbacks scandal. He was also accused by British lawmakers of a promised million-dollar payment from Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid.
Both Hayatou and Qatar denied wrongdoing.