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Platini to resign as UEFA boss
- Updated: May 9, 2016
Michel Platini is to stand down as UEFA president after his six-year ban from football was reduced to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) .
Platini was initially banned for eight years by a FIFA disciplinary committee over a £1.3m payment given to him by then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2011.
The pair claimed the money was for work Platini did for Blatter between 1998-2002. His eight-year ban was cut to six by the FIFA appeals committee.
Platini had hoped to be cleared of all charges but the three-man CAS panel in Lausanne backed FIFA’s judgement that the payment was “unfair” and a “conflict of interests”.
However the panel also ruled that the six-year suspension was “too …
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