Suspended until January 5 by the Ethics Commission of the International Federation (FIFA), Michel Platini faces a lifetime ban. This is his lawyer, Maître Thibaud Ales, who confirmed the news Tuesday. It has also described the sentence requested by the investigatory chamber of the internal justice FIFA “pure scandal” and “disproportionate”.
The French, suspected of having received a suspect alleged payment of € 1.8 million received in 2011 by the current UEFA president, from his counterpart at the head of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, also deprived of any function and referred in that case, in December will have its sanction. Until Monday, many rumors evoked a suspension of between six and seven years.
So far, only the American Glazer and Chuck Trinidéen Jack Warner, involved in the immense corruption scandal and money laundering within FIFA, have been suspended for life.
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