• Decision relates to £1.35m payment made by Fifa to Platini in 2011
• Blatter and Platini could face bans from football of at least six yearsFifa’s ethics committee has opened formal proceedings against the suspended Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, who are facing bans of at least six years from football over an alleged “disloyal payment.
The investigatory arm of the ethics committee revealed over the weekend that it had completed its work and recommended sanctions against the Fifa president and his Uefa counterpart. On Monday the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert confirmed he had opened formal proceedings after studying the reports.
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Source: theguardian.com