In a statement, the former UEFA President announced on Tuesday, April 5, having filed a complaint with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, in November 2021, against the FIFA boss, for “active influence trafficking “.
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The larvated conflict between the former President of the European Football Associations (UEFA), Michel Platini, and the boss of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, has reached a point of no -Serwoman.
Tuesday, April 5, Mr. Platini said in a statement filed a criminal complaint on November 17, 2021, with the Paris prosecutor’s office, against Mr. Infantino for “active influence traffic”. Solicited, the parquet confirmed the filing of this complaint.
This announcement then operates that the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (TPF) of Bellinzone must schedule the dates of the trial of M. Platini for “suspicions of scam, in the alternative, participation in abuse of confidence, even more subsidiaously, of participation unfair management, as an accomplice, as well as false in the titles “.
The ex-number 10 of the Blues should appear before the TPF, in the coming months, in the appearance of the presumed payment of 2 million Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) that it did, In February 2011, the former FIFA boss, Sepp Blatter.
The latter should be judged for “suspicions of scam, subsidiarily, abuse of confidence, even more subsidiaously, of unfair management as well as false in the titles.”
By placing a complaint against Mr. Infantino, who was his Secretary-General at UEFA for six years (2009-2015), Mr. Platini intends to light a media counterfeit on the political ground.
It also wishes to shed light on the conditions under which the Public Ministry of the Helvetic Confederation (MPC) has been the existence of this payment before opening a criminal procedure, on September 25, 2015, against M . Blatter.
m. Platini suspects Mr. Infantino for having an active role in his fall
The Swiss Justice Survey had then poured the political ambitions of French, suspended by the FIFA Ethics Commission and forced to declare package in the race to the succession of Mr. Blatter. It was finally Mr. Infantino who was elected to the FIFA Presidency in February 2016.
m. Platini suspects his ex-number 2 for having an active role in his fall. Especially since Mr. Infantino has been the subject of criminal proceedings in Switzerland since July 2020 because of three secret meetings (without completions in support), in 2016 and 2017, with the ex-Attorney General Helvetique, Michael Lauber, then responsible for investigations related to FIFA.
The French is especially interested in another meeting organized on July 8, 2015. This interview has intrigued, in 2020, the rapporteurs of the Supervisory Authority of the Swiss Parquet (AS-MPC): it took place between Michael Lauber, his spokesman André Marty and Rinaldo Arnold, childhood friend of Mr. Infantino and the first prosecutor of Haut-Valais.
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