FIFA on Monday, December 16th filed fresh claims in a Swiss court
seeking to recover Two million Swiss francs (£1.56 million) that it said
were paid inappropriately by ex-FIFA President Joseph Blatter to former
French football star Michel Platini.
“FIFA has today filed claims in the relevant Swiss courts against
former FIFA President Joseph Blatter and former FIFA Vice-President
Michel Platini, seeking restitution of the 2 million francs unduly paid
to Mr. Platini back in February 2011,” FIFA said, adding it was “duty-bound to try to recover the funds illicitly paid by one former official to another.”
Blatter and Platini, who could not immediately be reached for
comment, have maintained they did nothing wrong amid what became part of
the biggest corruption scandal to shake the world soccer body,
resulting in numerous prosecutions and convictions in the United States.
Blatter and Platini were both banned from soccer in late 2015 over a
payment of 2 million Swiss francs made to the Frenchman by FIFA with
Blatter’s approval in 2011 for work he had done a decade earlier.
Platini, the head of European soccer body UEFA from 2007 to 2015, was
originally banned from all soccer-related activities for eight years,
though the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) later reduced the
suspension to four years. His ban ended this year.
Blatter’s ban was reduced from eight years to six, a period later
upheld by CAS in a decision that concluded the now-83-year-old had
“breached the FIFA Code of Ethics since the payment amounted to an undue
gift as it had no contractual basis.”
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
FIFA sues Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini to recover £1.56m

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