FIFA goes after Platini: Will have millions back

The International Football association, FIFA, will go to court at the end of the year to get Michel Platini to return the two million swiss francs. It shows a

FIFA goes after Platini: Will have millions back

The International Football association, FIFA, will go to court at the end of the year to get Michel Platini to return the two million swiss francs.

It shows a document from Fifa, as AFP news agency has seen.

that Amount, equivalent to 13.7 million Danish crowns, received the former president of The union of European Football associations (Uefa) and the vice-president of Fifa, under Sepp Blatters reign in Fifa.

Fifa says in the document that linked, according to swiss law have until 31. december to bring the case to court 'to get the money back that was illegally paid out by the former president of Fifa to the former vice president of Fifa'.

According to the document Fifa also plans to take action against Blatter.

the Case takes its starting point in the investigation of Qatar as the choice of host country for the WORLD cup in 2022.

FIFA banned in 2015 both the former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from all football for breach of the paragraph about the gifts.

At the time put the ethics committee in particular on a money transfer of two million swiss francs, as Platini in 2011 they received from Fifa.

a few months ago expiration Platinis quarantine. The former Uefa-president has denied guilty of all charges and has previously said that he was the victim of a plot.

Date Of Update: 11 December 2019, 15:00
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