The World football ruling body, FIFA has filed charges in a court in
Switzerland seeking to recover two million Swiss francs, about
one-point-five-six million pounds from former French football star,
Michel Platini.
It said the cash was paid wrongly by former FIFA President,
Sepp
Blatter to Platini. It added it is
“duty-bound to recover the funds
illegally paid by one former official to
another.
This is coming amid what became part of the largest
corruption scandal
to shake the world football body, resulting in
several prosecutions
and convictions in the U.S.
It would be recalled that both men were banned from football
in late
2015 over the payment made to the Frenchman by
FIFA with Blatter’s
approval in 2011 for work he had done a decade
earlier.
