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Blatter, Platini face FIFA hearings in 2 weeks

Xinhua, December 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

The ethics committee of the world soccer ruling body FIFA is expected to make final verdict on Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini within two weeks, according to an Associated Press report on Friday.

Blatter and Platini would face separate hearings before FIFA ethics committee from Dec. 16-18 in Zurich. Verdicts are expected within days.

Both of them had been suspended for 90 days in October over two million U.S. dollars payment FIFA president Blatter approved for European boss Platini in 2011 as backdated salary, the report said. Endi