WORLD soccer ruling body, FIFA may finally nail the cofin on suspended President Sepp Blatter and his vice-president Michel Platini if the seven-year bans rumoured to have been recommended by the ethics committee is anything to go.
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According to BBC report, FIFA ethics investigators are likely to have recommended the sanctions over a “disloyal payment” that saw Platini, 60, receive £1.35m from Blatter, 79.
There was no written contract for the consultation-work payment, which Platini received nine years later.
The adjudicatory committee intends to announce its verdict by Christmas.
Both Blatter and Platini, who is also the president of European football’s governing body Uefa, are currently serving 90-day provisional bans. The pair have denied any wrongdoing, stating they had a “oral contract” for the work.
However, they are thought to be facing additional charges including mismanagement, false accounting and failure to co-operate with the ethics committee.
The adjudicatory committee, led by German judge Hans Joachim Eckert, opened proceedings on Monday, although a verdict will not be announced until next month at the earliest.
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