Former UEFA president Michel Platini said Saturday FIFA must now lift his ban over a 1.8-million-euro payment after Swiss prosecutors said they had found no evidence so far to bring charges against him.
“I hope that FIFA will have the courage and the decency to lift my suspension,” Platini told AFP in a telephone interview.
Platini was suspended from all football-related activities, later reduced on appeal to four years, by FIFA following a $2 million payment he received from the body in 2011 for work he did a decade earlier, with no contract to show for the deal.
The payment was authorised by FIFA’s then chief, Sepp Blatter. The disgraced Blatter is also now banned following the scandal that rocked world football.
Swiss prosecutors have been investigating the payment and French newspaper Le Monde reported that Platini had been cleared.
The Swiss public prosecutor’s office said Saturday that although no evidence had been found “so far” to bring charges…
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