Michel Platini has been questioned at Switzerland’s federal prosecution office about a 2 million dollar (£1.5 million) payment he received from Fifa in 2011. Platini, a former Fifa vice president, did not comment on the case on Monday to waiting media when he walked into the prosecution headquarters in the Swiss capital Bern. Platini submitted invoices to Fifa in January 2011 seeking payment for additional salary for advising in Blatter’s first presidential term, from 1998 to 2002. Fifa is seeking to recover what it called the “undue payment” plus interest from Platini. It filed a civil court case in the Swiss region of Vaud where he lived and paid taxes while he was Uefa president.

Source: Express August 31, 2020 20:15 UTC