Michel Platini

French football legend and former UEFA president Michel Platini was arrested this morning.

The reason for the arrest is the investigation into corruption in Qatar at the World Cup in 2022.

He is said to have been taken to the premises of the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police (OCLCIFF).

The general director of soccer's Super League and former president of the Greek Football Federation (EPO) Vasilis Gagatsis was indicted on Monday on corruption charges.

MOSFILOTI - A Cypriot fan of former soccer player and administrator Michel Platini renewed a bid Sunday to be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest collection of Platini memorabilia.

BELGRADE - Slovenian football federation head Aleksander Ceferin was elected on Wednesday new president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), TASS reports.

The 7th president of UEFA in its 62-year history, Čeferin will serve out the remaining two and a half years of the term of Michel Platini, who was suspended due to corruption.

Aleksander Ceferin has been elected as the new  president of Uefa, European football’s governing body, during voting procedures that took place in Athens at the 12th UEFA Congress. Ceferin, head of the Football Association of Slovenia, polled 42 votes at Uefa’s congress in Athens, 29 more than Dutchman Michael van Praag. The 48-year-old succeeds former France player Michel Platini, who resigned

Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin was elected on Wednesday in Athens as the seventh President of UEFA, defeating his opponent Michael van Praag from The Netherlands by a significant margin, with 42 votes against 13.

The biggest leak in journalist history, called the Panama Papers, has revealed a global network of corruption and tax avoidance, and includes many rich and famous people.

The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by German judge Hans Joachim Eckert, banned Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini from “all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level” for a period of eight years.

An ethics tribunal of scandal-plagued FIFA on Dec. 21 banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years saying they had abused their positions over a 2 million Swiss francs payment made to Platini.