Blatter and Platini can be closed off – in five years – Express

Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter has been suspended for 90 days by Fifa’s ethics committee.

But now the details of the shutdown can be much longer than that – because the payment from Blatter to Platini may be classified as financial crime.

– It would mean that Blatter and Platini for five years not even allowed to enter an arena, says a source to the Welt am Sonntag.

Last week came the news the FIFA Ethics Committee closes by Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for 90 days.

Even FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke was turned off as long, while the organization’s former president Chung Mong-joon gets banned for six years.

The reason that Blatter and Platini was turned off is that Blatter should have paid 17.2 million crowns to Platini for the mission that the Frenchman should have done for Fifa 1998-2002.

“The suspensions come into effective immediately, “wrote the FIFA then in a statement.

But now the information on the two football bosses can be turned off for much longer than that.

A source of the German Welt am Sonntag states namely that the payment is likely to be judged as financial crime.

And would that be the case, the two can be turned off as long as five years.

– It would mean that Blatter and Platini for five years not even allowed to enter an arena, the source said the newspaper under the German Bild.

Both Blatter and Platini has gone out with that they are innocent and says that it is not a question of a bribe without on payments for

work performed.

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