FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter dismissed from his post for a period of 90 days. The corresponding decision was taken by the ethics committee of the organization, it will be approved soon. Who will be the acting Swiss is still unknown.
From the President FIFA Joseph Blatter has turned away his own organization. The Ethics Committee, set up once on the initiative of an official, recommended by Swiss otstranit performed his duties for a period of 90 days. This became known to the British newspaper The Guardian.
Blatter has not officially removed from his post. The decision of the committee must approve it Arbitration Chamber, headed by German Hans-Joachim Eckert. This should take place in the near future.
Our own investigation of FIFA against Blatter was initiated after the initiation of the Swiss prosecutor’s office of criminal proceedings against the official governing world football for 17 years. 79-year-old functionary was blamed for just two episodes, which can be qualified as negligence and embezzlement.
The first – is the sale Caribbean Football Union in 2005 television rights to broadcast the 2010 World Cup and 2014. Investigators concluded the contract was obviously disadvantageous for FIFA and brought damage to the organization. Blatter’s lawyer, Richard Cullen totally rejected the allegations, saying that the contract has been carefully prepared by the staff of the International Football Federation and no violations contained.
The second episode, in which Blatter may incur criminal liability – is the transfer of UEFA President Michel Platini two million Swiss francs, held in 2011.
Investigators believe it was a bribe. Protecting the former French footballer insisted that it had to pay premium since the time when Platini was Blatter’s assistant. Since then, however, it’s been nine years.
According to the Bi-bi-si, UEFA president can expect the same fate as the Blatter. FIFA Ethics Committee is considering his removal, too, but, apparently, only with the positions held by the International Football Federation, where he is vice-president and member of the executive committee.
If the removal Blatter and Platini will be confirmed, they will be “out of the game” to the beginning of January. Who in this case will serve as president of FIFA, is still unknown.
It is interesting that recently the ethics committee of FIFA has already approved a fairly rigid suspension Chung Mong-joon, a candidate for the post of the head of world football. Yuzhnokoreets paid with 15 years of suspension from football for saying that he is ready to invest heavily in the development of sport, if his country won the right to host the World Cup – 2022 instead of Qatar. Chung Mong-joon said that “the ethics committee – a killer who haunts all those who oppose Blatter.” But, as subsequent events showed, this unit is capable of FIFA’s impartiality.
FIFA corruption scandal stretches from May this year. Before the next presidential elections in the organization American and Swiss police arrested a number of senior officials, accusing them of a few cases vzyatnichestva. Despite the fact that all the episodes occurred in fact occurred near by at Blatter, he quietly re-elected for a fifth term.
A few days later under pressure from the public and the media Swiss still agreed to resign.
New elections are scheduled for February 2016 years, and up until that time Blatter has the right to remain head of football on the planet. The main favorite for the presidency of FIFA immediately became Michel Platini, but the involvement of growing like a snowball, the corruption scandal hit and his positions.
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