FIFA investigatory chamber wants lifetime bans for Platini, Blatter
Sepp Blatter (left) shaking hands with Michel Platini. The two escaped potential lifetime bans demanded by investigators when the ethic committee's adjudicatory chamber found no evidence of bribery. FILE PHOTO | MICHAEL BUHOLZER |
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The two escaped potential lifetime bans demanded by investigators when the ethic committee's adjudicatory chamber found no evidence of bribery in a past case.
The FIFA ethics committee investigative chamber wants life bans for suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini who are currently facing eight-year bans from world soccer.
Blatter and Platini last month were both banned from soccer for eight years for ethics violations, leaving the global game leaderless as it seeks to dig itself out from beneath a slew of corruption cases. Both have denied wrongdoing.
The two escaped potential lifetime bans demanded by investigators when the ethic committee's adjudicatory chamber found no evidence of bribery linked to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment that FIFA made to Platini in 2011, with Blatter's approval.
