The ex-president of UEFA and the former boss of FIFA will appear, from June 8 to 22, before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, in particular for “scam”. In question: an alleged disloyal payment of 2 million Swiss francs made in 2011 to Michel Platini.
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It is an old story that is worth the ex-president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Sepp Blatter and the former boss of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini a trial very media. That of an alleged disloyal payment of 2 million Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) made, in February 2011, by the first in the second.
From June 8 to 22, the two men will appear before the Swiss Federal Criminal Tribunal (TPF), in Bellinzone, for “suspicions of scam, unfair management, breach of trust and false in the titles”. The criminal investigation of the Swiss public prosecutor (MPC) (MPC) in this controversial payment to Mr. Platini had provoked, in the fall of 2015, the fall of the latter, then candidate for the succession of Mr. Blatter.
For the Swiss Federal Prosecutor, Thomas Hildebrand, who ultimately led the criminal procedure, there is no doubt that Mr. Platini benefited from a “pecuniary advantage under a claim that did not exist in reality and to which he was not entitled “. According to the magistrate, the “double illegitimate enrichment” of the Frenchman “was carried out by the compensation of 2 million Swiss francs and, in addition, to the extent of the corresponding social security debt of Platini assumed by FIFA [229 126 Swiss francs] “.
m. Hildebrand does not believe in the version given by MM. Blatter and Platini since the opening of the investigation, September 24, 2015: they claim that this payment was made as a “backlash” under an “oral” agreement in 1998 during which Mr. Blatter had committed to pay 1 million Swiss annual francs to the French for his mission as technical advisor to the presidency of FIFA (1998-2002).
without determining why this payment was made a few months before the FIFA election in June 2011, during which Mr. Blatter was re -elected for a fourth term with the support of UEFA, Mr. Hildebrand noted that the sums observed did not coincide. He noted that Mr. Platini had sealed a contract with Mr. Blatter as a “independent” consultant, “on August 25, 1999 in Zurich”: “He agreed with Blatter of a remuneration of 300,000 Swiss francs per year, the Agreement providing, among other things, that FIFA would not support social security contributions. “
The invoice of January 2011
In addition, he recalls, in his indictment, that the French sent to the FIFA financial director, Markus Kattner, on January 17, 2011, a “fictitious invoice in a net of 2 million francs Swiss [500,000 Swiss francs per year for the years 1998-2002] “and” required payment of all social security contributions relating to this amount, including those payable by the employee “.
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