Uefa consider opening criminal proceedings against Gianni Infantino over World Cup sell-off plan
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Uefa are preparing a criminal complaint against Gianni Infantino following the Fifa president’s plan to sell off commercial stakes in the World Cup.
A 56-page document, filed by Uefa’s lawyers in a court in the United States and seen by The Independent, declares that Uefa are “preparing to bring criminal claims in Switzerland against Infantino” for “criminal mismanagement” following Fifa’s failed Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal.
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The filing states that Infantino’s hastily drawn up plan to sell off a 20 per cent stake in the World Cup to private investors for $4.2bn represented an “an absurdly low enterprise value” and accused the Fifa president of standing to gain financially in a process that was “neither the product of an open, competitive auction, nor tested by any independent valuer”.
Infantino’s plans, which involved Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner, the brother of US president Donald Trump’s brother-in-law, as a lead investor, collapsed within days last month after Uefa threatened to boycott the World Cup and other Fifa competitions.
Uefa called off its boycott on Wednesday after saying it had received “assurances” that Fifa would not attempt to sell off stakes in its competition again, but European football’s governing body warned Infantino that it was “considering legal action, arbitration, and/or regulatory complaints” following the failed FFE plan.
Infantino has remained in office after apologising for “mistakes” over the proposals, Kevin Lamour, Fifa’s former chief operating officer who criticised the FFE plan and said Fifa staff had been "deceived" by its president, has since left the global governing body.
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