Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini under investigation by FIFA ethics committee

FIFA’s ethics committee is investigating both Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter following the Swiss attorney general’s decision to launch criminal proceedings against the FIFA president.

It is understood the ethics committee is looking into the circumstances of a 2million Swiss franc (€1.82m) payment that UEFA president Platini received in 2011 for work said to carried out more than nine years previously. The ethics committee has the power to order suspensions by neither has been so far.