The Swiss Attorney-General is opening criminal proceedings against the old chiseller. Just announced.
Blatter - the endgame?
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There's more. Apparently one of the charges relates to an off-the-books payment of 2 mill.euros to Platini. Goodness only knows how far this will go.
Brilliant
Don't tell me Jack Waner was involved in all this too??
He's a fucking Time Bandit
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@GFN_France: Swiss authorities have launched an investigation into Michel Platini, according to Die Welt http://t.co/RoKU9KJfKH
There is something dodgy about Platini aswell. Dont want him as the next FIFA president, hopefully that wont happen.
There is something dodgy about Platini aswell. Dont want him as the next FIFA president, hopefully that wont happen.
You will never get a not dodgy FIFA president. It wouldn't suit many of the countries. They want someone they can bribe and the sponsors want someone they know they can control.
Of course the sponsors have known about the corruption for years but they won't care as long as it suits them.
Of course the sponsors have known about the corruption for years but they won't care as long as it suits them.
Jack Warner's been banned from football for life. Bit late now.
He's a cunt. He was bestest buddies with Sepp right up until the investigation happened.
Yet Dyke supports Platini in his FIFA presidency.
They're all a bunch of corrupt cunts. They should dissolve FIFA and create a new football body
Apparently there's talk in the papers this morning that Dyke's position could be under threat too. Wonder if ^^^^^^^^ is the reason.
Wouldn't surprise me, he was refusing to hand in a watch worth $10k which was a gift by Jack Warner a while back. As demanded by the FIFA ethics board
Asked whether criminal proceedings had been opened against him, Mr Platini said: "Absolutely not. I was heard last week by the Swiss Authorities only as a person providing information and I cooperated fully."
But this was contradicted by the Swiss attorney general, Michael Lauber, who said: "We didn't interview Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person."
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When the Football Association board meets at Wembley on Wednesday, one topic will be of particular interest. The latest twist in the unravelling of the basket-case that is Fifa. Because, with less than four weeks until nominations close for February's election of a new president of football's world governing body, the FA knows that mounting uncertainty surrounds the candidacy of the man it is backing to lead football into a new era.
Having been dragged into the corruption scandal that has engulfed world football's governing body, Uefa supremo Michel Platini's reputation and campaign is on the line, the Frenchman under mounting pressure to fully explain the £1.35m he received in 2011 from Fifa president Sepp Blatter for work he supposedly undertook between 1998 and 2002.
Blatter faces criminal investigations for what the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber has described as a "disloyal payment". Both men deny any wrongdoing, and Platini has now launched a belated fightback, insisting in an interview with French news agency AFP that the delay was because Blatter had told him it was not initially possible to pay him in full for his services as a consultant due to Fifa's "financial situation". Why he did not say this publicly last week when he was first questioned by Swiss prosecutors is unclear.
It has not gone unnoticed, of course, that according to Fifa's 2002 official finance report between 1999 and 2002 the organisation enjoyed surplus revenue of 115m Swiss francs (about £80m at the time), making it hard to accept that the body could not afford to pay Platini his fees.
What also makes all this so awkward is that shortly after Platini received the money in 2011, he backed Blatter's re-election as Fifa president, deciding not to stand against him. Platini says that the this had nothing to do with the money he received, and that the timing was merely a coincidence ......
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Hahaha ! Yes if course it is. You lying toad.
But this was contradicted by the Swiss attorney general, Michael Lauber, who said: "We didn't interview Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person."
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When the Football Association board meets at Wembley on Wednesday, one topic will be of particular interest. The latest twist in the unravelling of the basket-case that is Fifa. Because, with less than four weeks until nominations close for February's election of a new president of football's world governing body, the FA knows that mounting uncertainty surrounds the candidacy of the man it is backing to lead football into a new era.
Having been dragged into the corruption scandal that has engulfed world football's governing body, Uefa supremo Michel Platini's reputation and campaign is on the line, the Frenchman under mounting pressure to fully explain the £1.35m he received in 2011 from Fifa president Sepp Blatter for work he supposedly undertook between 1998 and 2002.
Blatter faces criminal investigations for what the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber has described as a "disloyal payment". Both men deny any wrongdoing, and Platini has now launched a belated fightback, insisting in an interview with French news agency AFP that the delay was because Blatter had told him it was not initially possible to pay him in full for his services as a consultant due to Fifa's "financial situation". Why he did not say this publicly last week when he was first questioned by Swiss prosecutors is unclear.
It has not gone unnoticed, of course, that according to Fifa's 2002 official finance report between 1999 and 2002 the organisation enjoyed surplus revenue of 115m Swiss francs (about £80m at the time), making it hard to accept that the body could not afford to pay Platini his fees.
What also makes all this so awkward is that shortly after Platini received the money in 2011, he backed Blatter's re-election as Fifa president, deciding not to stand against him. Platini says that the this had nothing to do with the money he received, and that the timing was merely a coincidence ......
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Hahaha ! Yes if course it is. You lying toad.
Numerous sponsors have been saying they want Blatter to go straight away. He's now apparently said he "respectfully disagrees".
The old sod must have a thicker skin than a rhino.
The old sod must have a thicker skin than a rhino.
Ha. The Rasputin of football. Maybe they need to try silver bullets.
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