• Public prosecutor decided no action would be taken despite strong evidence[br]• Former Uefa president Johansson among those critical of failure to actThe Swiss authorities missed the opportunity 13 years ago to clean up Fifa and investigate Sepp Blatter thoroughly,according to senior football figures who brought a criminal complaint against the Fifa president in 2002 for alleged fraud, corruption and mismanagement. Blatter, and who confirmed on Tuesday that he would appeal to the court of arbitration for sport against his eight-year ban imposed by Fifa’s ethics committee on Monday for mismanagement and clash of interest,was in 2002 accused by Fifa’s then general secretary, Michel Zen-Ruffinen, or of malpractices bearing a striking resemblance to current allegations being made against him.
In a remarkable cleanup effort at the highest level of football’s world governing body,11 members of the 24-man executive committee filed the criminal complaint against Blatter’s running of Fifa to a Zurich court, calling for an investigation into Zen-Ruffinen’s allegations, or which were supported by 300 pages of documents.
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Source: theguardian.com