Platini files a complaint against Infantino for influence peddling and defamation

ByDavid Mitchell

The former president of UEFA Michael Platini This Monday he filed a complaint against the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantinofor “false accusations” and “influence peddling”, in relation to the corruption accusations that in 2015 frustrated his candidacy to lead the FIFAaccording to a statement sent to AFP.

The complaint filed in Paris also accuses two former FIFA officials, the former FIFA legal director Marco Villiger and the former chairman of the audit committee Domenico Scala. Besides, Platinum He also plans to start a civil lawsuit against FIFA to claim financial compensation for damages” related to “the maneuvers used to prevent his election as FIFA president in 2015.”

The case has its origin in 2015when details of a payment of 2 million Swiss francs (about 1.8 million euros) made to Platinum by FIFA, which had been authorized years before, in 2011, by the former president of FIFA Sepp Blatter. Facts that triggered several disciplinary and criminal procedures, which harmed Platinum when he seemed a favorite to preside over FIFA and paved the way for Infantinowho had been its general secretary at UEFA, was elected president of FIFA in 2016, a position in which he was re-elected without opposition in 2019 and 2023.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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