The alleged disloyal payment made by FIFA to Michel Platini that resulted in the UEFA president and FIFA chief Sepp Blatter being suspended was detailed in a 1998 UEFA Executive Committee report, according to reports by French newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Platini and Blatter are due to attend personal hearings with FIFA s ethics judge from December 16 in relation to the alleged payment of two million Swiss francs, received by the former France captain in 2011 for work he claims to have carried out for world football s governing body between 1999 and 2002.
The transaction is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Swiss attorney general and the duo were handed 90-day provisional bans from all football activities on October 8 by FIFA s Ethics Committee.