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Finally justice lands at the feet of Blatter

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  1. Albert's Chip Shop

    Albert's Chip Shop Top Grafter Forum Moderator

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34363289

    Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Sepp Blatter, the head of football's world governing body Fifa.

    The attorney general's office said he was being investigated "on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as - alternatively - on suspicion of misappropriation".

    Mr Blatter was being questioned, and his office was searched, it added.

    Fifa said it was co-operating with the investigation.

    Mr Blatter, 79, has run Fifa since 1998 and has always denied any wrongdoing.

    'Disloyal payment'
    The Swiss attorney general's office said the investigation surrounds a TV rights deal Mr Blatter signed with former Caribbean football chief Jack Warner in 2005.

    Mr Blatter is also suspected of making a "disloyal payment" of two million Swiss francs ($2m; £1.3m) in 2011 to Michel Platini, the head of the European football body Uefa, the statement said.

    It said the payment was "at the expense of Fifa, which was allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002".

    Mr Blatter is due to step down in February. Mr Platini is widely expected to replace him.
     
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    Travelsick07 Well-Known Member

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    ****em, but he'll weasel his way out. I mean sure he'll get convicted, but lets be real here for a moment, he's 79 no? By the time appeals are up he'll be 84 and have some kind of cancer and won't spend long in jail.
     
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  3. Warmir Pouchov

    Warmir Pouchov Better than JPF

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    They'll never find anything, he will have burned the evidence ages ago.
     
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    Obi Wan keeper of the peace Forum Moderator

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    Like Sebb, he'll find a way to wriggle out of a no-win situation and somehow turn it into an unjust victory.

    No doubt he'll come out 'clean', somebody else will take a fall and then the slimy money-grabbing weasel will manage to sue them for wrongful accusations and defamation of character, laughing at the world as he makes even more undeserved ££££££millions.
     
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    Obi Wan keeper of the peace Forum Moderator

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    He'll have burned the evidence, bribed the investigators to not find anything AND have lined up a witless scapegoat just as a contingency.
     
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    Joelinton's Right Foot Worth Every Penny

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    Not sure he'll wriggle out of this one. Apparently his defence team is Taylor, Dummett, Haidara & Co(lo)
     
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