FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s and Michel Platini the UEFA president are both under investigation

FIFA President Joseph "Sepp" Blatter payment to fellow FIFA executive Michel Platini without a written contract was a conflict of interest

Michel Platini, the president of Uefa, said the money was owed from his job as an adviser to Blatter between 1998 and 2002, but there was only a verbal agreement.

“Both parties, the president and Mr Platini should have recused [themselves] from their positions because both are members of the executive committee of Fifa and they both have a conflict of interest,” Scala told the AP in the first public comments on the case by a Fifa insider, other than Blatter and Platini.

“Mr Platini has asked the president to pay him a prescribed amount, which he should not have asked, which is why it is a classic conflict of interest.”

Both Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini are serving 90-day suspensions, while the FIFA committee conduct a full investigation into the matter.

This could also end the UEFA president's chance of suceeding Blatter as the FIFA president in an election set for February of next year. However both presidents deny doing anything illegal and has appealed against their suspensions.

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