FIFA ethics committee probing allegation against corruption

FIFA ethics probe ‘requests sanctions’ against
Blatter, Platini – statement
November 21, 2015 at 10:26 am in Sports
The FIFA ethics committee probing allegations of corruption
against suspended president Sepp Blatter and his would-be
successor, Michel Platini, has requested that sanctions be
levelled against both men, a statement said Saturday.
“The investigatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee
has submitted its final reports containing requests for sanctions
against Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini,” the FIFA statement
said.
The investigatory chamber’s report has been sent to the ethics
committee’s adjudicatory body for judgement.
“For reasons linked to privacy rights and the presumption of
innocence until proven guilty, the chamber will not publish
details of the concluded reports and the requested sanctions
against the two officials,” the statement said.
A separate statement from the adjudicatory chamber confirmed
that it had received the reports and will study the findings
“carefully.”
The judgement body said it would “decide in due course about
whether to institute formal adjudicatory proceedings against
Joseph S. Blatter and Michel Platini.”
Both men were provisionally suspended by the ethics committee
in October for 90 days.
The moves came after Swiss prosecutors opened an
investigation into possible criminal mismanagement at FIFA
during Blatter’s tenure, including evidence of a murky $2 million
payment made to Platini in 2011, reportedly for work he did a
decade earlier.
Platini, the French football legend and the head of European
football until his suspension, had been the favourite to replace
Blatter as FIFA’s president until he became engulfed by the
worst ever scandal to hit the world’s most popular sport.