August 14 – Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has launched another attack on his successor Gianni Infantino, claiming the present incumbent “thinks he is untouchable” and should have an ethics inquiry opened against him immediately.
Infantino is facing a criminal probe in Switzerland by a special prosecutor over those infamous multiple meetings with departing Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber.
“Mr Infantino is in a situation where he thinks he is untouchable,” Blatter told AFP.
Blatter has long held a grudge against the man who ousted him and says that just as he had to face an ethics investigation, so should Infantino.
FIFA’s Ethics Committee, says the ageing Blatter, whose own six-year ban expires next year, “should immediately open an investigation and disclose it as they did against me”.
Blatter also cast doubt, as many observers have, over the independence of the ethics committee which underwent an overhaul when Infantino took over. Blatter said the current make-up “is not independent” because “Infantino has locked the control bodies and this is very worrying”.
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