Michel Platini announced, this Tuesday, through a press release, that he had filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor of Paris, on November 17, against Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, for “active influence peddling”. The former UEFA boss has also decided to sue Marco Villiger, ex-director of legal services at FIFA, for “complicity in influence peddling”. In the press release published by Michel Platini, the latter also expressed the wish that several personalities be heard in the context of these complaints.
The triple Ballon d’Or (1983, 84 and 85), suspended in 2015 from any football-related activity for 6 years (a sentence reduced to 4 years by the CAS) by FIFA, has always considered to have been the victim of a plot to remove him from the presidency of FIFA, which he was seeking at the time. He had been exonerated by the Swiss justice in 2018, while a payment of 1.8 M€ by Sepp Blatter, around a verbal agreement for a work of adviser, is at the origin of his legal concerns. . In 2018, Platini, at the heart of a new case, had already filed a complaint against Infantino for slanderous denunciation and criminal association.
Michel Platini says he’s filed a criminal complaint against Gianni Infantino, alleging influencing peddling. pic.twitter.com/S3l3cGT2jG
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