Federation Internationale de Football Association Ethics Investigators Recommend Sanctions Against Blatter

Instead, Robert Torres from Guam submitted the report on Blatter and Trinidadian Vanessa Allard compiled the report on Platini.

The lawyer representing Michel Platini told AFP today that FIFA had “lost all credibility” after the ethics committee of world football’s governing body requested sanctions against the Frenchman and Sepp Blatter.

“The adjudicatory chamber will study the reports carefully and decide in due course about whether to institute formal adjudicatory proceedings against Joseph S. Blatter and Michel Platini”.

The reports and requested sanctions will not be published “for reasons linked to privacy rights and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty”, said the investigatory chamber.

If Platini wins his appeal at the CAS, the electoral committee has said it would review his case but there is no guarantee he would be able to stand in the election as it would depend on the timing.

Blatter has been in charge of the world governing body since 1998, and in May this year he won his fifth term as president after being voted in by Fifa’s associate members ahead of Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein, only to announce his resignation four days later.

Platini’s legal team, which needs expected cooperation from Federation Internationale de Football Association to fast-track the case, said “we are confident that CAS will issue a ruling very quickly given what is at stake”.

There was no written agreement for the 2million Swiss franc payment – Blatter and Platini say it was an oral agreement made between them 13 years previously.

“It’s probable that the CAS will reverse Fifa’s judgement”, he said. But both men deny any wrongdoing.

The UEFA president is under suspension pending a Federation Internationale de Football Association ethics committee hearing over a £1.3million payment made to him by Federation Internationale de Football Association in 2011.

Swiss prosecutors have also opened a criminal investigation into the corruption allegations.