Zurich (dpa) -. The heavily loaded earlier FIFA vice-chief Jack Warner suspended for life, but what will become of the violently ailing President Joseph Blatter and his into the twilight geratenen successor candidate Michel Platini?
The ethics committee of the world football association imposed on 29 September in the wake of the corruption scandal surrounding the World Cup Award 2018 Russia and 2022 to Qatar a lifetime ban against the former president of the Caribbean Football Union CONCACAF. But whether Warner is a first pawn only and promptly also falls a legal decision on the controversial Personal Blatter and Platini, is open.
Between the start of the investigation against Warner in January and the decision is now in September passed more than half a year. Even if public pressure is enormous, a quick decision on the professional fate of the 79 years old Swiss father and his nearly 20 years younger than earlier Intimus does not seem likely. According to media reports the Attorney General of Switzerland checks Although a criminal case against Platini.
But for Blatter even this step the authorities has so far been no reason for resignation. Up to the date scheduled for February 26, FIFA Congress with elections he wants to remain in office. And over the period of investigation by the Ethics Commission against the two most important officials in world football can only speculate.
Against Blatter is currently running a criminal case “on suspicion of breach of trust” and embezzlement. The longtime FIFA chief is said to have made to UEFA President Michel Platini in February 2011 a “disloyal payment”. It had gone to services rendered between January 1999 and June 2002.
According to information of the “world” should Platini received a total of considerably more than the previously known two million francs. The president of the European Football Union had been a few days earlier questioned by the Swiss authorities as a so-called informant.
The Frenchman also protested on Monday reiterated his innocence. Up to the initiated criminal proceedings against Blatter Platini was considered a favorite for the succession to the FIFA throne. Should also Platini to be accused, his application
DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach would be invalid. Anyhow warned to ask his good friend Platini in the pillory. It belongs to a reputable administration, speak no quick prejudices, the head of the German Football Association said in the “Frankfurter Rundschau” and Sport1. One must “once to look very closely what is at stake and whether this actually misconduct has occurred,” he said, stressing that “we as DFB an active, transparent statement of operations expected”. This must be “above all in the best interests of Platini.”
to profileFaced with the threat from candidate for Platini to try in the background, the shadow men. The Brazilian Zico demanded by the ethics committee “immediate clarifications so that the reforms and the election of the FIFA are not contaminated by suspicion of corruption”. Ex-deputy leader Chung Mong-joon called an emergency task force, because the FIFA standing “before the collapse”. To date, Zico and Chung are given no chance in the election.
As corruption infested the world governing body up to the highest points is, can be speaking of the reasons for the judgment of the law chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert read. “Jack Warner committed continually and repeatedly various offenses, while he as a functionary various senior and influential positions held at the FIFA and CONCACAF,” it said in the statement of the Panel.
Warner was “a mastermind of systems which “have been the granting, accepting and receiving covert and illegal payments included, as well as other systems to enrich. Warner had resigned in June 2011 by all offices. Recently also a process had made in 2005 for explosiveness in the investigation against FIFA boss Joseph Blatter. Blatter said to have then finished with Warner an unfavorable for the FIFA agreement.
The Swiss television had early September reported that Blatter the broadcasting rights for the World Cup in South Africa for dollar 250 000. that for the World Cup in Brazil $ 350,000 should have sold. Warner is therefore the TV broadcasting rights have resold two years later, according to estimates in the media for 15 to $ 20 million again. Warner is currently on bail on the loose. The justice in Trinidad and Tobago will probably decide in December about his possible extradition to the US. By contrast, Switzerland gave the former president of the Association of Costa Rica, Eduardo Li, on Tuesday in the United States.
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