FIFA: the Ethics Committee could open an investigation into Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini

"If there is an initial suspicion, the investigative chamber of the Ethics Commission launches a formal procedure," says Andreas Bantel, spokesman for the FIFA Ethics Committee, to the Swiss weekly Schweiz am Sonntag on 27/09/2015. "These rules apply to everyone in the world of football, regardless of their name or status," said Andreas Bantel, refusing to confirm or deny the opening of proceedings against Joseph Blatter and/or Michel Platini.

The Swiss Justice has opened a criminal case against Joseph Blatter, FIFA president, suspected of "criminal mismanagement and, alternatively, misappropriation," on 25/09/2015. "Additionally, Mr. Joseph Blatter is suspected of a disloyal payment of 2m Swiss Francs (€1.54m at the time of the payment) to Michel Platini, President UEFA, at the expense of FIFA, which was allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002 ; this payment was executed in February 2011," said the statement of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (MPC), 09/25/2015. "Michel Platini was heard by the MPC as a person called to give…