Sepp Blatter paid 17 million crowns to Michel Platini – but there was no agreement that regulated the settlement. Instead, it was about “a verbal agreement,” writes the Guardian.
Last week announced FIFA’s ethics committee that both the organization’s own president, Sepp Blatter, and UEFA Michel Platini turned off in 90 days of world football because of suspicions of financial irregularities as the duo may be involved in. The background is a transfer of the equivalent of 17 million from Blatter to Platini in 2011, the chief prosecutor in Switzerland, believes could be a bribe, but where the Frenchman and Swiss argue that the case of fees for a mission Platini did for Fifa when he was Blatter’s adviser in 2002.
According to Platini and Blatter , the reason for the payment was made only nine years after the actual task currently is to Fifa in the early 00′s had financial problems, and that the parties therefore waited until the situation was better.
But now writes the Guardian that there has never been any contract for the deal from the beginning. Instead, Blatter and Platini have agreed orally, without documentation, which, according to the prosecutor’s office in Switzerland is remarkable. Not least because the law in Switzerland, where FIFA is headquartered, provides that a worker is not entitled to claim the unpaid wages for a period of five years.
Prosecutor suspect Blatter in the chop can have been guilty of breach of trust, and that he may have abused its position of power within FIFA. For Platini’s part, he, according to the Guardian, is no longer only a witness throughout the legal process surrounding Fifa. Instead, he has a legal status which he is required to provide information to the investigation, which could lead to his later be suspected of a crime or totally freed in the process.
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