FIFA: Michel Platini faces a lifetime ban – The World

The ethics committee investigation chamber of the International Football Federation (FIFA) required a lifetime ban against the president of the European Association of football (UEFA), as Thibaud Ales, lawyer Michel Platini. He criticized the boss of UEFA to have seen, in 2011, 1.8 million euros of Joseph Blatter, FIFA president resigned to a counselor working completed in 2002. The judgment will be delivered in December.

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“I regret that it came out, because the utmost confidentiality surrounding this procedure was “, commented Thibaud Ales, regretting the leak of this information Tuesday on the site Libération . “This required banishment is conditioned to evidence of corruption. But there is clearly a disproportion of punishment required. It has no basis in the record “, sued the lawyer Michel Platini who is currently under the influence of a temporary suspension of ninety days passed Oct. 8 and runs until 5 January. A supension which prevents for now the former playmaker of the Blues to stand for election to the presidency of FIFA pévue February 26, 2016 and that Michel Platini tips challenged by entering the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS).

“There is a desire to harm”

“This is a pure scandal! And making it public, there is clearly a will to harm. The masks fall one after the other to FIFA, there is a manipulation of the electoral calendar and a disposal strategy Platini candidate “, added the lawyer of the former Ballon d’Or triple , member of Clifford Chance in Paris

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The commission FIFA Ethics declined to comment. A source close to FIFA, who declined to be named, however, believes that advertising requisitions could be a “maneuver camp Platini to show the prejudice alleged” anti-platinien “of the Ethics Commission” . “I am shocked that this has leaked” , said Mr. Thibaud Ales, refuting any maneuver supporters of Michel Platini.