This is an important game for Michel Platini: the Court of Arbitration Sport will decide by Friday whether to lift its temporary suspension in the case of the famous controversial payment of EUR 1.8 million
The CAS will hear the lawyers of both parties (Platini and FIFA) on Tuesday after -Midi and decide by “Friday at the latest,” according to a statement released Monday by the supreme and independent sports jurisdiction, based in Lausanne.
The internal justice Fifa imposed in October 8 Platini temporary 90-day suspension from all football-related activity because of the famous controversial payment of EUR 1.8 million received in 2011 from Blatter, FIFA president resigned also suspended for a counselor work completed in 2002.
This sanction, which runs until January 5, depriving the French of his duties as President of UEFA and also freezes his candidacy for the presidency of FIFA, to which the poll is still Scheduled February 26. Platini had first appealed to Fifa, who had dismissed, before entering the CAS on November 20.
A lifting of this suspension would not remove the sword of Damocles over the head of the former leader of the Blues. The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee of FIFA must always give its verdict on the merits before Christmas, after hearing from 16 to 18 December. And the trial judges Fifa have required him against radiation lifetime in the world of football.
– Platini draw to Saturday fate? –
This weekend, the Platini camp could finally enjoy a little thinning. According to the Journal du Dimanche, an internal memo of UEFA dating from November 1998 shows that many people at the top of world football were aware of the existence of a contract to pay Platini on annual basis from 1 million Swiss francs for work to Fifa.
“This document is written evidence of an oral contract,” welcomed me to AFP Thibaud Ales, Platini lawyer. Will this be enough to whiten the former Ballon d’Or triple and allow it to stand for the presidency of FIFA?
The former general secretary of UEFA Gerhard Aigner has set Monday questioned the existence of this document, “Why would she UEFA wanted to focus on his private affairs I can not imagine that it ever existed such a document?”
. A lifting of the suspension by the CAS allow it in any case, without prejudice to the final decision of the internal justice Fifa to resume his boss clothes UEFA and chairing the draw of the Euro 2016 Saturday night in Paris.
This would be a strong image in the symbols for the one who lifted the trophy of the Euro-1984 in this city at the head of the France team, and was re-elected UEFA President by acclamation in the French capital in 2011.
Platini case is not the only issue on the shelves of Fifa in perpetual crisis, widespread corruption background .
– Blatter and ISL, endless story –
Blatter also suspended 90 days until January 5, will also be heard by the judgment of the chamber between Fifa 16 and 18 December. He who was president since 1998, is also within the scope of the equivalent of an examination set by the Swiss justice who criticized him famous payment of EUR 1.8 million to Platini and have sold TV rights to football competitions at well below market prices.
And the old cases back to the surface. The FBI is examining documents that prove that the Swiss knew of corrupt practices within the Fifa under the ISL scandal in the 1990s, according to a BBC investigation broadcast Sunday.
ISL a sports marketing company suspected of having paid EUR 92 million of bribes to obtain several competitions broadcast rights in the 1990s The case was closed without further action by the Swiss justice.
And Blatter had already unveiled its line of defense on the Fifa website in 2012: “Know what Whether commissions were paid At the time, it was even possible to deduct such tax payments? under operating expenses. I can not in fact have been aware of a crime that was not one at the time “.
07/12/2015 6:19 p.m. : 33 – Paris (AFP) – By Philippe GRELARD – AFP © 2015
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