The triple Ballon d’Or, director of sepp blatter between 1998 and 2002, in his first term in the FIFAaccording to a written contract signed in 1999, agreed to an annual remuneration of 300,000 Swiss francs, “invoiced by Platini and fully paid by FIFA”recalled the Swiss prosecutor’s office at the beginning of November.
In 2011, “more than eight years after the end of his activity as director”the former captain of France “enforced a debt of 2 million Swiss francs”paid by the soccer instance “with the contest” from sepp blatterand judged “baseless” for the accusation.
Both repeat from the beginning of the investigation that they had orally decided on an annual salary of one million Swiss francs for this job as a counselor, without the finances of the FIFA allowed at that time the payment to Platinumso, according to them, the debt was simply paid late.
Fraud can lead to five years in prison “or to a pecuniary penalty” in Swiss law.
During the investigation, Blatter recalled that all the competent bodies of the FIFA had validated the payment and that the instance had made the corresponding social contributions, in addition to Platinum there was “paid tax on that amount at your place of residence in Switzerland.”
The trial should also clarify the circumstances in which this matter broke out in 2015, when years after the payment of two million, in a context marked by the race for the succession of Blatterafter a series of scandals that mainly affected South American football officials.
Both have long suspected that the current president of the FIFA, Giani Infantinoor his environment alerted the prosecution about that transaction, which dated back four years before when it was made known.
Infantine He was then the main collaborator of Platinum on the UEFA and, once the Frenchman was removed from the race for presiding over the FIFAdecided to run and won the election.
Swiss justice investigates in parallel on the “collusion” of his former chief prosecutor with Giani Infantinoafter three secret meetings between the two, recalled on Tuesday Platinumdenouncing “judicial drifts unworthy of a rule of law”.
Source: Ambito
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