Michel Platini has lost his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport to have his 90-day provisional Federation Internationale de Football Association ban lifted.
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“The proceedings are still ongoing at the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, which, after careful consideration of the report, chose to institute formal proceedings against Mr Platini on 23 November 2015”.
He will be heard by the ethics committee on December 18 with a decision expected by Christmas, according to a spokesman for the body.
The FIFA vice-president appeared before CAS judges on Wednesday with his lawyers to plead the case for him to be allowed to return so that he can take part in FIFA s election campaign for a new president.
Even if the ban had been lifted, Platini was unlikely to have his candidacy – including an integrity check – validated by FIFA’s election panel before the ethics verdict is due, the court said.
Ulrich Haas (Germany), determined that maintaining the provisional suspension for the remainder of the 90 days does not cause irreparable harm to Michel Platini at this point in time.
Platini and Blatter have accepted there was no written contract for the payment, said to be related to work undertaken by the Frenchman as a special adviser to Blatter between 1998 and 2002.
Platini’s lawyers argued that a salary of 1m Swiss Francs a year was agreed.
If this ethics committee fails to exonerate Platini and Blatter, who both say they have done nothing wrong, both men could face bans of several years if found guilty of wrongdoing. Switzerland’s attorney general confirmed Yesterday that it had taken possession of the UEFA document and other material.
“Swiss authorities should have at least informed me that such a thing would happen”, Blatter said, adding that he was “shocked when I saw, and (what is) still going on, what has happened in the different confederations”.
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But the sense it was planning for a post-Platini era was compounded when he announced European football’s governing body was on the brink of introducing goal-line technology, something its president had long opposed. His 17-year rule as Fifa’s president has descended into a quagmire of accusations and counter claims with 39 people charged with corruption by the U.S. justice department.
