The former French leader released a statement confirming that he filed this complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office on November 17 and that it also involves Marco Villigerformer director of the legal office of the FIFA.
The newspaper “Le Parisien” points out that the denunciation of Platinum it is known after the resurgence of an old story linked to a lithograph by Picasso entitled “Football” that “Le Roi” would have received years ago from the hands of the Russian oligarch Alicher Ousmanov to favor Russia in the election of the venue for the 2018 World Cup.
On Monday night and after having denied for years that he had received that painting as an “offering”, Platinum He finally admitted the fact because the work in question was also found during one of the raids carried out by the justice system as part of a corruption case against him.
The choice of the venue for the 2018 World Cup was held at the end of 2010 together with that of the World Cup that Qatar will host at the end of this year.
The suspicions aroused by that election of both venues, for which England and the United States also competed, gave way to an investigation by the US State Department and the Swiss justice system that led to the scandal known as “FIFAGate”.
the swiss Joseph Blatter As a result of that corruption scandal, he had to resign a new term as president of the FIFA, position to which Platini aspired, who, like him, ended up being disqualified by the entity from holding positions for several years.
As for the complaint filed now against Infantino, it is presumed that it would be linked to the suspicion of collusion between a Swiss prosecutor and FIFA and that is why Platini asked the justice to call other Swiss judges and prosecutors to testify.
The complaint of the former French soccer player was filed a few days after the Swiss prosecutor’s office requested his prosecution, along with Blatter’s, for the crime of fraud linked to the illicit payment by the entity that the Swiss chaired at the time to Platini of two million Swiss francs for alleged advice. The FIFA initiated a judicial process to recover that figure.
The influence peddling denounced by the former president of the UEFA it targets those who commit a crime by exploiting their relationships with public officials or those in charge of a public service.
Source: Ambito
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