FIFA: Infantino Faces ‘Mismanagement’ Allegations

11TH DECEMBER, 2020
Fifa President, Gianni Infantino has been heavily criticized over allegations of “unfair management” by a Swiss Prosecutor, Stefan Kellar, for using a private jet, funded by the body, to fly between Suriname and Switzerland in 2017.

On July 30, this latest accusation comes after a procedure was opened on July 30 against Infantino for “incitement to abuse authority”, the “violation of official secrecy” and “obstruction of criminal proceedings”, EKO HOT BLOG gathered.

On the basis of the investigations carried out, (prosecutor) Stefan Keller is of the opinion that a criminal investigation must be opened for unfair management,” said a statement from his office.

Keller is, however, “not competent to open such an investigation” and therefore transmitted his conclusions to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPC).

Keller was appointed “extraordinary prosecutor” in early July to investigate suspicions of collusion between Fifa and former MPC chief Michael Lauber.

His investigations related to three secret meetings held in 2016 and 2017 between Lauber and Infantino.

Lauber resigned in the summer while Fifa’s internal justice system cleared Infantino in mid-August.

The Fifa chief said it was “absurd” to be implicated for having met a magistrate, insisting he wanted to show Lauber how much Fifa had changed since the clouds of corruption which had engulfed his predecessor Sepp Blatter.

Fifa said on Thursday that they and Infantino were shocked by Keller’s statement, claiming it was “both malicious and defamatory in nature and demonstrates his extreme bias”.

“Neither Fifa nor its president have ever been informed of these new spurious allegations and they are therefore unable to comment on them, which is probably the intention of the ‘special prosecutor’.

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