Condemned Blatter and Platini. 8 years of suspension by FIFA – The Republic

ZURICH. It ends an era for the world football. The Ethics Committee of FIFA has suspended Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years with immediate effect: “Guilty of corruption and abuse.” The sentence thus unites the two great adversaries, whose continuous confrontation has marked the last two decades of management of world football. About two million Swiss francs paid by Blatter Platini in 2011, for a consultation carried out for the Fifa between ’98 and 2002, FIFA has thus considered that the 79 years old Swiss executive has authorized a payment that had no basis legal agreement signed by the parties. He declared: “Neither in his written statement or during his hearing, Blatter was able to demonstrate the presence of a legal basis for this payment. His claim of an oral agreement was not convincing and was rejected.” Something similar also to Michel Platini. Even in the case of the President of UEFA, FIFA believes that there are no “legal basis” in the agreement signed with Blatter to justify the payment. Le Roi also fined 80,000 Swiss francs.

> “The actions of Mr. Blatter did not show the commitment of an ethical attitude, failing to comply with all laws and regulations,” write the ‘judges’, and demonstrate “abusive conduct of his position as FIFA president.” “The proceedings against Mr Platini are mainly related to the payment of 2 million Swiss francs received in February 2011 by FIFA. The payment to Mr. Platini had no legal basis,” according to the Ethics Committee, and “the explanation of Mr. Platini not He was convincing and was rejected by the House. ” “The available evidence in this case were not sufficient to establish, to the extent required, if Mr. Platini has received the payment for the performance or omission of an official act, however, the behavior of Mr Platini was a violation of Article 20 paragraph 1 of the FCE (offer and acceptance of gifts and other benefits). In addition, Mr. Platini found himself in a situation of conflict of interest “.

BLATTER: “TREATY AS A PUNCHING-BALL ” – Former FIFA president, Blatter, he has been called a press conference to comment on the ruling. “I was treated like a punching bag. I’m sad for football and for FIFA. I am especially sorry for the human aspect of this situation. I was optimistic, I thought we had convinced the Ethics Committee of how it was created this situation. But I will continue to fight, for me and for FIFA. I was suspended for eight years but for what? This is a tsunami for the Fifa, people do not understand why the president should be suspended. This has resulted in damage to FIFA, but also to my family. We will appeal, and then we will go on appeal to the CAS. ” “I continue to be the president of FIFA,” said Josef Blatter at a press conference after the Ethics Commission has suspended for eight years. “I’m sorry, I’m not ashamed, added Blatter- ashamed of the evidence presented. The president can be relieved only by the General Assembly. I am a man of principles and these principles continue to be there. Never take money you do not deserve, pay off debts. Now they tell me that I have tried to buy through platini the votes for the election. Platini has never been attached to money, he is an honest person. In a way, we had the same ideas although he had a different approach to the presidency of FIFA. I never wanted to do anything against him. I will not be the smartest person in the world, but I’m not a fool as they are directly involved. They tried in 2002 to get rid of me . I do not think that the Ethics Committee has ties with the United States, I do not think there is pressure from the United States but rather within FIFA. I still have the support of many who are vicinii me, my family and many members Executive committee. What happened today is not right and it is a problem for FIFA. If the World Cup had been assigned to the US rather than in a European country, this would never have happened. “The reference is to the allocation of the next editions of the World Cup in 2018 to Russia and 2022 to Qatar.

PLATINI: “VERDICT GIA ‘WRITTEN” – “Nothing new, the verdict was written four months ago. Why am I not surprised. “And ‘This is the first reaction of Michel Platini after the disqualification of eight years that imposed the ethics committee of FIFA.

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