An internal memo from UEFA on wage labor to the Fifa , known since 1998 at the top of world football, can it save Michel Platini? The three weeks will be decisive for the future of the candidate to the presidency of the supreme body of football.
According to Platini camp this note proves that the payment of 1.8 million . euros that resulted in the suspension of the former French international was founded
The new document into evidence revealed by the “Journal du Dimanche” “looks like one of the notes of an intelligence service”: it This is an internal report circulated at a UEFA Executive Committee in Stockholm, Sweden, November 12, 1998.
In this document, it is stated that Joseph Blatter, who has to be elected in June President of the Fifa , “has already announced that Platini would become the future sports director of the Fifa [that] Platini would become so involved in the Fifa “. Y is also writing, as the “JDD”, that “we hear about a salary of one million Swiss francs.”
At this time, three members of the executive committee of UEFA whose president Lennart Johansson, also occupy high positions in the Fifa .
This document is written evidence of an oral contract, “insists the lawyer Michel Platini, Mr Thibaud Ales. “This paper not only confirms the existence of an employment contract between Michel Platini and the Fifa in 1998, but its amount. “
” This shows that this contract had no occult character and was known to many members of the executive committee of UEFA and several members of the Executive Committee of the Fifa in 1998, “says this member of Clifford Chance in Paris.
” Accusations beaten in the face “
Michel Platini, President UEFA since 2007 and presidential candidate of the Fifa , is suspended from any activity in football until January 5 and is threatened with lifetime ban by the committee Ethics Fifa .
At the heart of the case, there are these 1.8 million received in 2011 from Platini Blatter, today resigned president of the Fifa for full and final settlement for consulting work completed in 2002.
The accusations of the commission Ethics Fifa are unfounded and are beaten in the face, “says Me. On Ales. “We have no doubt that the Ethics Commission will eventually face the facts and that Michel Platini will eventually be completely exonerated.”
The judges of the FIFA also require lifetime ban because according to Platini camp they “speculate” on a balance of payment in 2011, the year when Blatter was re-elected for a fourth term.
“The timing of the presidential election of the Fifa has nothing to do with it, because I had never had the intention to run” , Michel Platini was opposite end of September.
Present draw Saturday?
The coming weeks will be intense for Michel Platini 60 years. While waiting to know the final verdict of the internal justice of the Fifa , is suspended 90 days since October 8, until January 5.
His candidacy for president of the Fifa , in which the voting is expected on February 26, is frozen and can not campaign.
The former leader of the Blues has appealed the suspension to the Fifa , which rejected it. The former star player of Juventus then turned November 20 to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, supreme and independent sports jurisdiction.
The CAS could make its decision in coming week, according to the deadlines applicable in such cases urgently.
In case of lifting of the suspension by the CAS, Platini would be able to chair the draw for the Euro 2016 Paris December 12, that he could not do in the present state of suspension.
Michel prances, it wants to regain its employees, its function of UEFA President and validate his candidacy for the presidency of the Fifa ‘, indicates his entourage told AFP.
On the merits of the case, Platini will be heard by the chamber judgment of the Ethics Commission of the Fifa between 16 and 18 December, told AFP a source close to the Fifa . This body intends to give its verdict in December, so probably before Christmas.
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