The ex-president of UEFA and the former FIFA boss repeated on Thursday, that the alleged disloyal payment of 2 million Swiss francs made to the French in 2011 was a bullshit of wages for the period when He was Mr. Blatter’s advisor.
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A culminating point has already been reached, on the second day of the trial of the ex-French president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Michel Platini, and the former Swiss boss of the International Federation of Football (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, for “suspicions of scam, unfair management, breach of trust and false in the titles”. Thursday, June 9, ex -numéro 10 of the Blues – who risks a maximum sentence of five years in prison – was questioned almost an hour by the president of the Court of Criminal Affairs of the Swiss Federal Criminal Tribunal (TPF) of Bellinzone, in the Canton of Ticino.
Of the sheets arranged on his table, Mr. Platini has given back the version he has held, since the opening of a criminal procedure by the public prosecutor of the Confederation (MPC) in September 2015, about the presumed payment Delocal of 2 million Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) made by Blatter, in February 2011, several months before the election to the presidency of FIFA of June 2011, won by Valaisan with the UEFA support.
Likely a mileage, the ex-player pleaded negligence and played the card of the casualness in his relationship to money when he repeated that this payment was made as a “wages of wages” for the period ( 1998-2002) where he officiated as the “technical advisor” of his ex-allié and mentor Sepp Blatter.
“I want 1 million”
Under the wide eyes of the president, Mr. Platini said that in “spring 1998”, while Mr. Blatter associated him with his campaign for the presidency of FIFA and asked him what he wanted as Salary, he would have answered “to laugh, I want 1 million (per year), pesetas, reads, rubles, marks, it is you who decide.”
According to Mr. Platini, Mr. Blatter could not honor this “oral agreement”: because of “important financial problems”, the president of FIFA made him initially initialed a consultant contract to 300,000 Swiss annual francs. “Blatter said to me:” My secretary general earns 300,000 Swiss francs, I’m going to do the same contract as him and for the rest we will see later “.”
While the MPC does not believe in this thesis of “the oral agreement”, the president asks the French “why this 1999 contract does not mention anything about the amount due to you according to the oral agreement” , or a total of 2.8 million Swiss francs? “I knew that one day Mr. Blatter would pay me, I had confidence in the president of FIFA, I am not a man of money, I earn very well my life since the age of 17,” said -So, wearing his chair.
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