• Ethics committee looking into payment he received from Sepp Blatter[br]• Platini may now be ruled out of running for Fifa presidencySepp Blatter and Michel Platini,who was favourite to succeed the Fifa president until a dramatic intervention by the Swiss attorney general, are both now understood to be under formal investigation by Fifa’s independent ethics committee and could be suspended within days.
If Platini was provisionally suspended while Fifa’s investigatory continued to view into the issues raised by the Swiss attorney general when criminal proceedings were opened against Blatter on Friday, and he would be automatically ruled out of the presidential race.
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Source: theguardian.com