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Uefa boss Michel Platini faces lifetime ban from Fifa

Fifa's ethics watchdog wants Michel Platini’s banishment for life over a suspect payment, according to his lawyer. Fifa's executive committee is conducting an investigation into a 1.8 million euro payment made to him by Fifa president Sepp Blatter.

Uefa boss Michel Platini faces lifetime ban from Fifa
Uefa boss Michel Platini faces lifetime ban from Fifa Reuters/Eric Gaillard/Files
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The suspended Uefa chief is serving a 90-day suspension on corruption charges alongside outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter, while Fifa's adjudicatory committee considers its verdict.

Both Platini and Blatter will have to wait until next month to know whether the Fifa court finds them guilty of flouting codes of conducts. The pair have denied any wrongdoing, but admitted there was no written contract.

They also are facing charges of mismanagement, conflict of interest, false accounting and non co-operation with or criticising the ethics committee.

Platini’s lawyer, Thibaud d'Ales, said the proposed punishment was a scandal and excessive. The lawyer told the French sports daily L'Equipe: "This ban is subject to corruption being proved but it is clearly a disproportionate punishment.

"In releasing this, there is clearly a desire to harm. The masks are slipping one by one in Fifa, the electoral calendar is being manipulated and there is a strategy to eliminate Platini as a candidate."

Until recently, Platini was the favourite to take over world football's governing body. If banned, the 60-year-old former France skipper would also be forced out as head of the European football's ruling body Uefa, which he has led since 2007.

The five other candidates for the top job are: Asian football chief Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, former Fifa vice president Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, former diplomat Jerome Champagne, former anti-apartheid campaigner Tokyo Sexwale and Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino.

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