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FIFA has arrived at a crossroads, accusing President Gianni Infantino of being at the origin of the violation of Paris Saint Germain and the financial fair play of Manchester City during his stay at UEFA, considering that these imputations were aimed at "undermining the new FIFA leadership."
According to these accusations, the PSG and Manchester City, controlled mainly by funds from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, would have received millions dollars from these countries, camouflaged as "sponsorship contracts", which Michel knew. Platini and Infantino, then president and secretary general of UEFA.
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"It seems obvious that the" report "made by some media indicate that there is only one objective in particular: to try to undermine the new direction of FIFA, in particular that of President Gianni Infantino, and Secretary General Fatma Samoura ", said FIFA in an official statement.
The rector of world football said that "four weeks ago, a group of journalists sent several hundred questions to FIFA, on the basis of private and internal emails and other information to which they had access ".
He points out that, although they answered "directly and honestly", some media decided to "ignore" most of the answers and to "distort both facts and the truth, in a deliberate attempt to discredit FIFA and deceive its readers."
The parent company of the ball targeted the former displaced leaders, responsible for the dissemination of " false rumors and insinuations, the new direction "and regretted that there is media that have lent voice to" such false statements ".
"To avoid doubts, it should also be emphasized that NONE of the" reports "contains anything equal even a violation of any statute, statute or rule of law. This is undoubtedly an incalculable improvement over the past and a resolute will of FIFA to go forward. "
The accusations against Infantino, broadcast in various media of the Old Continent, indicate that in 2012, during the term of office of Switzerland as Secretary General of UEFA, the PSG irregularly received 1,800 million euros from the Government of Qatar, for allegedly violating the rules of financial fair play.
According to the accusations, Infantino would have validated the contract between the PSG and the Qatari government, Michel Platini, who presided over the UEFA, would also have participated in this agreement with Nbader Al-Khelaïfi, president of the Paris club and his arm right, Jean-Claude Blanc
In addition, Mediapart badured that Platini would reduce a fine of 60 million euros to the French club for breach of financial fair play, while Infantino agreed that the PSG would take into account retroactive way a fraction of the contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority for the 2013-2014 season
The disclosed documents also refer to another investigation on the PSG for violation of financial fair play in 2017. It is indicated that a delegation of UEFA had badured the leaders of the PSG In May this year, the investigation would be closed without further action "for political reasons", without giving more details.
For its part, the German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that "Infantino secretly met the highest leaders of PSG and Manchester City" and pointed out that UEFA had neither sanctioned nor excluded the two clubs of the Champions League, contrary to what she had done with other institutions, because "They are shamelessly controlled by the authoritarian governments of the Persian Gulf states."
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