Fifa want to recover US$2 mil from Michel Platini

Michel Platini walks a free man after being questioned over a criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

LAUSANNE: Fifa are to take legal action by the end of the year to force Michel Platini to return US$2 million he received “illegally” during Sepp Blatter’s reign at world football’s governing body, according to a document seen Wednesday.It said in the document seen by AFP they would take action “to recover the money illegally paid by the former President of Fifa to the former Vice President of Fifa.

The document explained that Fifa also planned to target Blatter and that, under Swiss law, Fifa have until December 31 to file a claim in court. Fifa said they planned to sue Blatter at the same time and would be seeking “interest at the appropriate rate” and “disciplinary fines and costs… both ordered but not paid.”Fifa’s ethics investigators branded the payment “disloyal” and banned Platini for six years.

The Frenchman appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport , which reduced his suspension to four years but said that it “was not convinced by the legitimacy of the payment, which was only recognised by Mr. Platini and Mr. Blatter.”Fifa said in the document that the “undue payment…had no basis in law, and that fact has been established in various courts and tribunals up to the level of the Swiss Supreme Court.

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