The FIFA ethics investigatory committee announced Saturday that it was requesting sanctions against FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini — but it declined to say what sanctions it had recommended.
Although it has finished its investigation, the committee said in a statement “that for reasons linked to privacy rights and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the chamber will not publish details of the concluded reports and the requested sanctions against the two officials.”
In a separate statement, FIFA’s adjudicatory chamber said it had received the reports and would “decide in due course about whether to institute formal adjudicatory proceedings against Joseph S. Blatter and Michel Platini.
A $2 million payment from Blatter to Platini
In August, Blatter and Platini were banned by the FIFA ethics committee. The sanctions were imposed amid a Swiss investigation into a payment made by Blatter to former France captain Platini in 2011.
Both Blatter and Platini appealed their bans. Both deny wrongdoing.
The Swiss authorities are examining a contract signed by Blatter with the Caribbean Football Union and an alleged “disloyal payment” of two million Swiss francs (about $2 million) to Platini, made in 2011.
