FIFA Bans Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini From Football Activities for Eight Years

  

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini has been banned  by FIFA from all football related activities for 8 years and also fined by the FIFA adjudicatory ethics  Chamber.
The Decision was announced on Monday in Zurich,which make it impossible for both to contest for the FIFA presidency in Feb.A life time ban was recommended by the chamber for 2.000000 Swiss Franc undocumented payment by Blatter to Platini for a consultancy Job .

The FIFA statement on Monday read: 'The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Mr Hans Joachim Eckert has banned Mr Joseph S. Blatter, President of FIFA, for eight years and Mr Michel Platini, Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of FIFA and President of UEFA, for eight years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately.

'The proceedings against Mr Blatter primarily related to a payment of CHF 2,000,000 (£1.35m) transferred in February 2011 from FIFA to Mr Platini.

'Mr Blatter, in his position as President of FIFA, authorised the payment to Mr Platini which had no legal basis in the written agreement signed between both officials on 25 August 1999.

'Neither in his written statement nor in his personal hearing was Mr Blatter able to demonstrate another legal basis for this payment. His assertion of an oral agreement was determined as not convincing and was rejected by the chamber.'

Blatter has been fined £33,700, while Platini has been fined £53,940.