The Ethics Committee of FIFA Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini suspended for 90 days, that makes the world football association announced Thursday. The second hand of Blatter, Jerome Valcke, is suspended. The Frenchman was in September by the FIFA administration already put on non-active, because he would have been involved in the illegal trade in tickets for World Cup games in Brazil.
Because of the suspension UEFA president Platini can not run for the presidency of FIFA.
Another presidential candidate, Chung Mong-Joon, is suspended for six years. To him, a fine of 100 000 Swiss francs. Chung Mong-joon is suspected that he bought votes for the World Cup bid from South Korea for 2022. The suspension is effective immediately.
The suspension of two football directors may be extended by another 45 days, reports the ethics committee headed by Hans-Joachim Eckert.
The world football have been traditionally plagued by corruption scandals, but President Blatter has long remained unaffected. The position of the Swiss had shaken after it became known that in 2011 was 1.8 million euros transferred from FIFA to UEFA president Michel Platini. The Swiss prosecutor calls this a bribe, but as the Frenchman was a payment for work he had done at the FIFA between 1999 and 2002.
Platini
Just before the FIFA suspension was publicized, Platini responded ferociously to the allegations. The chairman of the UEFA feels that people within FIFA want to damage his reputation.
,, The deliberate leak out of this is an attempt to damage my reputation, '' Platini wrote. ,, The past few weeks I have stated fully prepared to cooperate with the authorities, who strictly follow the rules. On the other hand ridicule FIFA precisely with these rules. ''
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