Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter. Here's how Twitter reacted to the news...
|||Zurich - Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of world soccer body Fifa, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Friday.
It said Blatter was interrogated after a meeting of Fifa's executive committee in Zurich, and authorities carried out a search at Fifa headquarters on Friday.
The Swiss Attorney General said UEFA president Michel Platini, who is widely tipped to succeed Blatter, is also implicated in the probe.
Platini was also questioned as a witness over what Swiss authorities termed a “disloyal payment” of 2 million Swiss francs he received from the 70-year-old world football supremo in February 2011.
But Blatter’s lawyer said a review of the evidence will show that the Fifa boss was not responsible for any mismanagement.
“Mr Blatter is co-operating and we are confident that when the Swiss authorities have a chance to review the documents and the evidence they will see that the contract was properly prepared and negotiated by the appropriate staff members of Fifa,” said a statement by Richard Cullen, a defence lawyer based in Virginia.
“Certainly no mismanagement occurred.”
Cullen was referring to a deal with the Caribbean Football Union that Swiss prosecutors said was “unfavourable to Fifa” and which is central to their case against the head of world football's governing body.
AFP, Reuters and ANA
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