Just In: UEFA President, Michel Platini Loses Suspension Appeal
Michel
Platini's bid to stand a chance at the next FIFA presidential election
might have just fizzled away after the CAS ruled that the suspension
placed on him by FIFA's ethics committee must stand.
UEFA president, Michel Platini
Michel Platini, the UEFA president provisionally banned over a
£1.35m “disloyal payment” from his FIFA counterpart Sepp Blatter, has
failed in his bid to have his interim suspension lifted.
The Frenchman had hoped to be able to attend this weekend’s Euro
2016 draw in Paris after applying to the court of arbitration for sport
against his original 90 day provisional ban. But the Court of
Arbitration for Sports (CAS) ruled that the decision by FIFA’s ethics
committee should stand ahead of a final ruling next week on the facts of
the case.
The CAS did, however, caution FIFA against extending the
provisional suspension beyond the current 90 days. Under its rules, the
ethics committee could have added an extra 45 days to the ban, but the
CAS panel said this would have have been unfair to Platini. In the
event, the argument is a moot one because the ethics committee has
promised to deliver its verdict before Christmas.
Both Platini and Blatter will next week attend a hearing in front
of ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, who will rule on whether
the lifetime bans requested against both men by the investigatory
chamber should be applied.
The interim 90-day suspensions were announced in September after
Swiss police opened a criminal investigation against Blatter and
questioned Platini as a “person between a witness and a suspect” over a £1.35m payment in 2011.
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