Suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini could face seven-year bans from football if found guilty of corruption claims.<\/p>\n
Fifa ethics investigators are likely to have recommended the sanctions over a “disloyal payment” that saw Platini, 60, receive \u00a31.35m from Blatter, 79.<\/p>\n
There was no written contract for the consultation-work payment, which Platini received nine years later.<\/p>\n
The adjudicatory committee intends to announce its verdict by Christmas.<\/p>\n
Both Blatter and Platini, who is also the president of European football’s governing body Uefa, are currently serving 90-day provisional bans.The pair have denied any wrongdoing, stating they had a “oral contract” for the work.<\/p>\n
However, they are thought to be facing additional charges including mismanagement, false accounting and failure to co-operate with the ethics committee.<\/p>\n
The adjudicatory committee, led by German judge Hans Joachim Eckert, opened proceedings on Monday, although a verdict will not be announced until next month at the earliest.<\/p>\n
Fifa said the reports had been studied “carefully” but that it would not publish details of the sanctions requested, but its ethics investigatory committee is likely to have pushed for a minimum seven-year ban for both Blatter and Platini.<\/p>\n
This is based on the similar length of time that Harold Mayne Nicholls – the man who wrote the technical inspection reports for 2018 and 2022 World Cup candidate nations – received for breaching “conflict of interest” rules.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Platini, who still hopes to replace Blatter as the next Fifa president in the February elections, has taken his case against his suspension to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).<\/p>\n
Swiss Blatter, who has had recent heath problems and claimed on Monday that he was “close to dying”, is also likely to appeal to Cas.<\/p>\n
Frenchman Platini wants his suspension overturned, his case heard quickly and his ban lifted pending Eckert’s final judgement.
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\nBy: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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