Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are facing the ruins of their careers as football officials. On Monday morning, the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee of the World Association Fifa has fined both a eight-year ban for all football activities. Thus Blatter loses his position as FIFA president, Platini must go as head of the European federation UEFA. The Frenchman may also not a candidate in the FIFA presidential election on February 26 2016th
The duo may in the next eight years and no other office in the football business exercise, even a world-wide stadium ban is connected to the lock. This also means that Platini is allowed to visit a game itself at the European Championships in his homeland in the summer 2016th The tournament was to be the highlight of his official career.
In the court’s opinion of the ethics committee, which projects the German Hans-Joachim Eckert as chief judge, they said, neither in written statements nor in their personal interview whether Blatter or Platini managed to explain a dubious money transfer and thus to prove their innocence.
“Mr Blatter has authorized in his capacity as Fifa president this payment, although no legal basis in the of both signed written agreement of 25 August 1999 had “informed the Ethics Commission:” Neither in his written observations nor during his hearing Mr Blatter was able to prove a legal basis for this payment. His assertion of an oral contract was classified as unconvincing and rejected by the Chamber. “
Blatter and Platini stumbled over two million francs
For undoing Blatter and Platini sent a payment of Fifa to Platini in the amount of two million Swiss francs in 2011. Shortly before Platini a bill at this height to the world governing body – for between 1999 and 2002 services rendered as FIFA advisor. However, the former world-class player had already received at this time according to the contract about CHF 300,000 per year.
When the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office was informed of the million payment, the Commission initiated in late September an investigation against Blatter for embezzlement in. Platini was classified as so-called “respondent.” This is according to Swiss law, an intermediate figure between witness and the accused.
implausible consultation, dubious accounting
The Ethics Committee made no difference at that time, they were both suspended on 8 October provisionally for 90 days. Blatter and Platini had already at that time their offices at FIFA and UEFA rooms and protested her innocence ever since. The payment is based on an oral agreement that she was therefore lawful.
Blatter and Platini, the two alleged, had agreed before Platini took office as a consultant on that a large part of the fee would be paid because of the financial situation of FIFA at a later date. That Platini presented the two million francs only nine years after its working end into account, can not be criticized.
The ethics investigators Fifa saw it differently. They found that the transaction did not even emerged from February 2011 the annual reports of the World Association. In addition, demand was already barred Platini. Noteworthy was also the time of payment. Only three months later Blatter was re-elected FIFA President, Platini’s support and thus the Uefa had the Swiss safely
“behavior can not ethical see attitude “
Blatter thus secured the support in the presidential election with the payment to Mr Platini? Were the two million accordingly bribes? The ethics investigators saw it so she applied for a lifetime ban. The adjudicatory chamber assessed the payment, however, inter alia as a conflict of interest and the unauthorized transfer or acceptance of gifts and other benefits, and thus precipitated a lighter sentence. Neither Blatter nor Platini had informed the Executive Committee of FIFA and UEFA about the million deal.
The receipt for it they received on Monday morning. In their conduct in relation to the money transfer no obligation to an ethical attitude is to recognize, criticized the ethics committee. They also imposed fines against the two officials: Blatter has to pay 50,000 Swiss francs, Platini 80,000
Blatter will proceed against the judgment.. He announced on Monday in Zurich, lodged with the FIFA Appeal Committee opposition to draw before the International Court of Arbitration for Sport and to take steps before an ordinary Swiss court. He was a “punching bag,” he lamented
Nevertheless. The fate of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini seems finally sealed
alleged corruption have been arrested two other Fifa officials in Switzerland. . In the course of the investigation against FIFA, the police in Zurich restarted raids Source: The World
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