FIFA Corruption Thread

[Fivex]

Fifa scandal: Michel Platini drawn closer to Blatter case

Michel Platini, the head of European football's governing body Uefa, is being treated as "in between a witness and an accused person'' by Swiss prosecutors investigating corruption at the world football authority Fifa.

Prosecutors accuse Fifa president Sepp Blatter of making a "disloyal payment" of $2m (£1.6m) to Mr Platini. Mr Platini has provided information to the investigation but said he did so as a witness. Both men deny wrongdoing.

Mr Platini has said he is still determined to run for Fifa president once Mr Blatter steps down. Asked whether criminal proceedings had been opened against him, Mr Platini said: "Absolutely not. I was heard last week by the Swiss Authorities only as a person providing information and I cooperated fully."

But this has been contradicted by the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber.
"We didn't interview Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34396551

[Vermilion]

For an inappropriate payment to Platini. Would be great if it sinks both of them.

Too right. Both of them and most of the people just below them are as croooked as any criminal.

I find it extremely hard to believe that Qatar hired Platini's son to work for them because he was the best candidate, or that it was just coincidence, or how the owner of Olympiacos gets away with what he does, and who happens to be Platini's bezzie.

[Cormack74]

they did indeed.....they were saying today even Prince Ali has a few skeletons in his closet

Surely most of these bods are rich enough already? Seems amazing they still have to dip their sticky mitts in the sweetie jar.

[Bender]

Didn't the FA say they would back him for the FIFA gig a few weeks ago?

they did indeed.....they were saying today even Prince Ali has a few skeletons in his closet

[Cormack74]

Didn't the FA say they would back him for the FIFA gig a few weeks ago?

[Bender]

For an inappropriate payment to Platini. Would be great if it sinks both of them.

[ame]https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/648052735871356928[/ame]

[Kenneth]

For an inappropriate payment to Platini. Would be great if it sinks both of them.

[Kenneth]

[Bender]

[ame]https://twitter.com/skysportsnewshq/status/647417493280178176[/ame]

[Bender]

[ame]https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/647395451487039488[/ame]

[Bender]

Uefa president Michel Platini says he "might have told" United States officials he would vote for their 2022 World Cup bid before backing Qatar instead. (Guardian)

[Bender]

The man is made of teflon, more and more allegations seem to arise and none of them ever seem to stick.

Baffling tbh how the guy gets away with it.

More like someone who's over the years carefully got rid of any thing linking him to wrong doings and having someone else take the fall....You know he's guilty but nothing sticks to him unlike others.

[RichC]

The man is made of teflon, more and more allegations seem to arise and none of them ever seem to stick.

Baffling tbh how the guy gets away with it.

[Bender]

No Corruption here,none at all
Sepp Blatter is under renewed pressure after it emerged he awarded World Cup television rights for a fraction of their true value to Jack Warner, on which the disgraced former Fifa executive then made an £11m profit.

The publication of a contract bearing the outgoing Fifa president’s signature draws him closer into the web of continuing investigations and further calls into question his links with Warner, who served on the executive committee of world football’s governing body for 28 years.
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[ChesterDave]

I try to avoid them to be honest. About as tolerable as YouTube comments section. On the subject of online comments sections the i had an article yesterday about Mains Online reaction to Nazi quotes in the comments sections. It was depressingly predictable.