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PABLO GIANINAZZI
Happy Easter clients for former FIFA President Sepp Blatter: According to the newspapers “Le Monde” and “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the federal prosecution has closed the proceedings against the Valais. Blatter, 84, who had chaired the World Football Association until 2015 and had been banned by the FIFA Ethics Committee for six years, will no longer be prosecuted in the process of selling movie rights at too low a price .
Blatter has been accused of granting television rights to the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) at prices below market value. There were suspicions of unfair management and breach of trust. The contract, which expired in 2011, granted the CFU the television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Championships at a price of $ 600,000, well below market value at the time.
At the time, the CFU was headed by Trinidadian Jack Warner, who had been banned from FIFA for life and charged with corruption by the United States judiciary. At the request of the AFP news agency, Blatter said he had not yet personally received the partial termination document.
The film’s rights case, which is said to have sold below market value, was part of a two-part case against Blatter that opened in 2015.
Second criminal case still pending
In the second criminal case, the former FIFA president is accused of agreeing to a controversial payment of 2 million Swiss francs to then-UEFA President Michel Platini in February 2011.
“As soon as the Platini case is closed, I will submit a request for rehabilitation to FIFA because my suspension by the FIFA ethics committee was based on allegations from the Swiss judiciary,” Blatter added.
Initially, a request from Keystone-SDA to the Bern Prosecutor’s Office went unanswered. (SDA)
