Sepp Blatter said on Tuesday that one Swiss investigation into his handling of a television contract has been dropped, but FIFA said that does not mean its former president is in the clear. “I was officially informed today that the federal public prosecutor’s office has decided … to close the investigation,” Blatter, who is 84, told AFP on Tuesday. The Swiss attorney general has thus shelved one of the two parts of the proceedings opened against Blatter in 2015 on “suspicion of unfair management and breach of trust”. Trinidadian Warner, a former FIFA executive committee member, has since been banned from football for life and is wanted in the United States. Blatter acted “more in Warner’s interests than in the interests of FIFA,” wrote Swiss investigators.

Source: Punch June 02, 2020 17:26 UTC