Sports World News of Monday, 12 September 2016Source: BBCBanned Michel Platini given permission to address UEFA meetingPayment that led to Platini's ban from football is still under investigation by Swiss prosecutorMichel Platini has been given permission to address European football's governing body UEFA when it meets this week - despite the former president being banned from all football activity. Frenchman Platini, 61, was head of UEFA until his ban for breaching ethics rules over a £1.3m "disloyal payment". "The FIFA ethics committee has informed UEFA that Michel Platini will be allowed to address the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens on 14 September," it said in a statement. The ethics committee of world governing body Fifa handed down an initial eight-year ban for Platini and Fifa's then-president Sepp Blatter last year. But the ethics committee felt the pair had demonstrated an "abusive execution" of their positions.

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