Report: ‘Memo backs Platini salary claim’

It reports that the document was distributed during a UEFA executive committee meeting in the Swedish capital


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The memo appears to support Michel Platini's claim that he was paid an annual salary "of one million Swiss francs" for work as an advisor to FIFA. PHOTO: AFP

PARIS:


A report issued to UEFA’s executive committee in 1998 appears to support Michel Platini’s claim that he was paid an annual salary “of one million Swiss francs” for work as an advisor to FIFA, according to a claim by French newspaper Journal du Dimanche.


The weekly reported on Sunday that it possesses a copy of a document which it describes as “resembling an intelligence service memo”.


It reports that the document was distributed during a UEFA executive committee meeting in the Swedish capital Stockholm in 1998.


The document indicates that Sepp Blatter — who was elected FIFA president for the first time in June 1998 — “already announced that Platini would become the future sporting director of FIFA. Platini would therefore become part of FIFA”. It added that there were rumours that the Frenchman “wishes to work from Paris” and that “there has been talk about one million Swiss francs as salary”. 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 7th,  2015.

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