Swiss federal prosecutors are targeting former European soccer head, Michel Platini in a widening of their probe into 2 million Swiss franc payment equivalent of$2.06 million arranged by former FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
Swiss prosecutors have been probing blatter over accusations he arranged the payment from FIFA to then UEFA President Platini in February 2011.
Blatter and Platini, who captained France to victory in the 1984 European championship on home soil, were both banned in 2016 from soccer for six years over the payment, made with Blatter’s approval for work done a decade earlier.
Both have however denied any wrongdoing.
The office of the attorney-general said that since May it had widened its probe to cover other aspects of the matter and to investigate 3 additional people, including Platini.
FIFA in December filed claims in Swiss courts seeking to recover the 2 million Swiss francs, which it said were paid inappropriately.
Swiss federal prosecutors in may ended another investigation into Blatter’s deals with the Caribbean football union to sell world cup broadcasting rights and on Friday said an appeal had been filed against that discontinuation, to be decided by Switzerland’s federal criminal court’s appeals board.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
