FIFA will increase the penalty, Platini and Blatter – Dagbladet.no

Study Unit of FIFA Ethics Committee has decided to appeal against exclusions to Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter.

It wants extended punishment for football spikes.

Platini, president of the European Football Association (UEFA) and outgoing FIFA President Blatter was recently banned from all football for eight years. The reason is a controversial money transfer between the pair in 2011.

The payment of two million Swiss francs, equivalent to about 17 million, according to the two football tops have been paid for work Platini did for the International Football Federation ( FIFA) in the period 1999 to 2002.

The judicial chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee found it not proven that the payment could be linked to corruption, but nevertheless felt that Blatter and Platini had acted frazzled and flaunted the association’s ethical rules.

The outcome was thus an eight year long suspension for both, instead of livstidsutestengelse which apparently would have been the alternative outcome.

Blatter has confirmed that he will appeal his sentence, and Tuesday informed the ethics committee’s investigative chamber that also it does the same. It means simply that investigation unit wants stricter punishment for Platini and Blatter.

Appellate Body of the matter is FIFA’s appeals committee. The matter may be taken to sport arbitration court (CAS).

Michel Platini withdrew his candidature as the new FIFA president as a result of the eight-year-long ban he imposed.

Sepp Blatter replaces front office to be elected at an extraordinary congress on 26 February.
(NTB)