Michel Platini implicated in FIFA scandal, claim Swiss authorities

Zurich: Embattled FIFA chief Sepp Blatter is suspected of "disloyal payment" to UEFA head Michel Platini, who had hoped to succeed him, the office of Switzerland`s attorney general said Friday.

"Mr. Joseph Blatter is suspected of a disloyal payment of 2.0 million Swiss francs ($2.04 million, 1.8 million euros) to Michel Platini, President of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), at the expense of FIFA," it said in a statement, adding that the payment had been executed in February 2011, and had allegedly been made "for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002."