In a largely symbolic move, FIFA, the international organization overseeing world soccer, announced Tuesday that it had barred Jack Warner, a former vice president who left the sport’s leadership amid scandal four years ago.

Mr. Warner, of Trinidad and Tobago, is among 14 men who were indicted by the United States in May on widespread corruption charges, including bribery and kickback schemes dating to 1991. The allegations against Mr. Warner have mounted this month; Swiss investigators announced last week that they were scrutinizing an element of Mr. Warner’s record for which the United States had not charged him — his purchase of valuable World Cup television rights from Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s president, in 2005 for an amount potentially 33 times lower than market value. The deal ignited suspicions of a quid pro quo agreement.

Still, the timing of FIFA’s announcement Tuesday — four months after Mr. Warner was charged and many of his peers were barred from soccer — was unexpected. Years before, Mr. Warner had been under investigation by FIFA after he was suspected of offering bribes in exchange for election votes. In response, he resigned in 2011 from both FIFA and Concacaf, a regional confederation overseeing soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

In a statement, FIFA said its independent ethics committee had been examining the bidding contests for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups since January, months before the United States’ case was announced. Those bidding contests, won by Russia and Qatar, are at the center of the Swiss inquiry.