“I will come back”: Joseph Blatter
Like a fallen and distant despot was also Joseph Blatter’s farewell appearance an atmosphere of madness. “I will come again,” claimed the nearly eighty-year-old football Patriarch after he had been sent into exile on Monday by ruling the ethics committee of the International Football Association (FIFA) – for eight years. In reality, it’s the end of Blatter as a functionary. But a public relations agent, the locked, visibly getting senile and confused expectant president staged on Monday again as a victim of political intrigue.
“autorTxt” Author: Michael Ashelm, editor-in business.
His message sounded like the apology of a Mafia godfather: I just wanted the good. That Blatter’s counter-event vis-à-vis took place of the old Zurich FIFA Headquarters, fit the symbolism of the ousted football world ruler. As Blatter resided here, his power was absolute. Meanwhile, the Valais, of the Order of Merit awarded by the Germans for the 2006 World Cup, to his complete self-dismantling works. “To say this would be a good day for FIFA, a good day for football, would be completely wrong,” whispered Blatter. A sad picture.
It acts like the irony of fate that his former Crown Prince Michel Platini was also taken for eight years out of the race with him. And that the two main football officials have been punished just by a federation of Justice, they had mostly only grudgingly supported itself under the public pressure of the reform process. “Both believed to stand even above the law”, the anti-corruption expert Mark Pieth says in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Basel Strafrechtler served as Fifa consultant decisive for the introduction of multiple compliance regulations. This included the construction of the now powerful ethics committee, in the now 35 cases against Fifa officials were negotiating.
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The verdict against Blatter and Platini said the chamber chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert. The German lawyer was until his retirement in the summer of this year, Chairman of the sixth criminal court at the Landgericht München I and has extensive expertise in the prosecution and punishment of corruption offenses and economic crimes. “Such a process has never happened before. I know that this ruling will have a massive impact on the two officials, including the football. This responsibility I have always been aware, “Eckert told this newspaper.
Now Blatter and Platini have perished together. Overthrown by a dubious payment of two million Swiss francs by the FIFA chief to the president of the European Football Association (UEFA) in 2011. The FIFA judges saw no legal basis for the cash flow. While the accusation of bribery was dropped for lack of clear evidence, for the ethicists complained at two top officials a conflict of interest and the acceptance and granting of gifts and benefits. In addition, both Blatter and Platini had breached its fiduciary duty to the Fifa. These Blatter has to pay a fine of 50,000 francs, 80,000 francs Platini.
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