Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been suspended for 90 days. This is a provisional measure taken by the FIFA ethics committee after its members met this week following the Swiss attorney general decision to open criminal proceedings against 79-year-old Blatter. The president is accused of signing a contract that was unfavourable for FIFA and also for making a "disloyal payment" to Michel Platini, the president of UEFA.
Blatter has been at the head of FIFA since 1998 while Platini is considered his most likely successor. Both presidents denied any wrongdoing. On Wednesday Blatter said that he feels he is condemned without any evidence. The investigations of the Swiss prosecutors is following leads regarding a 2005 TV rights contract between FIFA and Jack Warner, who was then the president of CONCACAF.
The prosecutors also have their eyes on a payment of around 1.35 million pounds that Michel Platini has received in 2011. The Frenchman says that payment was compensation for work that he did nine years before. The Swiss prosecutors say that Platini is "in between a witness and an accused person". FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon is also under investigation by the ethics committee.
sharpe
8 years ago
I don't think that Sepp Blater is the only evil in FIFA he's just the face of that evil. This organizations (I mean FIFA and UEFA) are so corrupted and so badly managed but there is not any changes for so many years now. It's very difficult for any new faces to break trough in them because of the benefits which present...
I don't think that Sepp Blater is the only evil in FIFA he's just the face of that evil. This organizations (I mean FIFA and UEFA) are so corrupted and so badly managed but there is not any changes for so many years now. It's very difficult for any new faces to break trough in them because of the benefits which present members have that I have a feeling somebody have to die to loose his spot in the organization.
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Alexa Alexa 8 years ago
I hope this is the first step to stop seeing Sepp Blatter as the president of the FIFA.Fifa's reputation had a lot of turbulence in near post and Blatter has big guilt for that.He is old ,and it is not normal see a person in that age on the top of so important and powerful organisation.
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rikimartin4444_115925
8 years ago
I am happy to see that finally started to settle accounts with a crime in football. Sepp Blatter is one of the main culprits for the situation in FIFA. I hope that the investigation will show who are the culprits and they will all respond. Also, FIFA need to find new people to lead them in the right direction.
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GREGJO
8 years ago
This is ver good to read Blatter is suspended. But he'll be back in business less than 10 days. Why? Because he did not accept this decision and appealed against. Larry Mussenden from Bermuda will lead that committee. Everybody knows that region is in love with Blatter. There is no chance for a corruption free FIFA.
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advoghado
8 years ago
Wise decision, I sincerely hope that Blatter stay out of soccer for a long time, forever if possible. In the same way the EX president of the Confederation of Soccer in Brazil, which is currently in prison in Switzerland. More than suspension, should investigate all irregularities and evidence of corruption, bribery, cheating,...
Wise decision, I sincerely hope that Blatter stay out of soccer for a long time, forever if possible. In the same way the EX president of the Confederation of Soccer in Brazil, which is currently in prison in Switzerland. More than suspension, should investigate all irregularities and evidence of corruption, bribery, cheating, only in this way is that the FIFA organization can make soccer a more competitive and fair sport
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nik92 8 years ago
I think nobody knows what's going on in that organization. It seems to me that it is like a spider's web in which all are involved.Nobody should be protected.Generally the problem of corruption is very large the big money is in circulation.World Cup in Qatar where the temperature is over 40 degrees,It is not clear to anyone..
I think nobody knows what's going on in that organization. It seems to me that it is like a spider's web in which all are involved.Nobody should be protected.Generally the problem of corruption is very large the big money is in circulation.World Cup in Qatar where the temperature is over 40 degrees,It is not clear to anyone..
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Johnajax 8 years ago
I think that he is the worst thing ever happened to football and he should be suspended for a life. All we know how bad organization FIFA become and all that is only because Sepp Blatter, for him the most important thing is money and people like him shouldn't work in football.
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