The FIFA ethics committee probing allegations of corruption against suspended president Sepp Blatter and his would-be successor, Michel Platini, will hear from the pair between Dec. 16-18, a committee spokesman said Monday.
“Mr Platini and Mr Blatter will have the chance to present their positions during hearings scheduled between December 16-18,” the spokesman told AFP.
Both men were provisionally suspended by the ethics committee in October for 90 days.
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The moves came after Swiss prosecutors opened an investigation into possible criminal mismanagement at FIFA during Blatter’s tenure, including evidence of a murky $2 million payment made to Platini in 2011, reportedly for work he did a decade earlier.
Aside from the Swiss probe, the United States justice department has charged 14 ex-FIFA officials and sports marketing executives with more than $150 million of bribery and corruption dating back decades.
Those indictments, unsealed in May, uncorked the scandal that has shaken world football and grown seemingly wider each week.
