“Active influence peddling”: Michel Platini and his complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino
Michael Platini, former No. 10 of the France team continues his legal fight started since 2015.
A5 NEWS – Tuesday, April 05, 2022, the former leader of the European Football Confederation made public the filing of a complaint in Paris against Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA,for active influence peddling » and against Marco Villinger, former Legal Director of FIFA, for “ Complicity in influence peddling The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office registered this complaint on November 16, 2021, according to the receipt of which AFP obtained a copy.
The former star of the Blues has opposed frontally for several years to Infantino and those around him. Michael Platini suspects him of having ousted him from the race for the presidency of FIFA in 2015 by alerting the Swiss prosecution to a suspicious payment of 02 million Swiss (1.8 million euros), made by the international body, on order of its president Sepp Blatter to the attention of French in 2011. The tour without written justification.
The payment of 1.8 million euros still at the heart of the legal battle
In that case, Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter were indicted in Switzerland in November 2021 for several offenses including “ scam are heading for a trial. The two men insist that it is a remainder of salary for work as an adviser dating back to the period 1999 – 2002.
The Frenchman had been suspended for four years from all football-related activity in 2016. Opposite, Gianni Infantino, elected in 2016, at the helm of FIFA, has also been the subject of criminal proceedings in Switzerland since July 2020 ” for incitement to abuse of authority “, to ” breach of official secrecy obstruction of criminal proceedings ».
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