Report: UEFA Paid Off Gianni Infantino's Alleged 'Lover'
UEFA said the payment covered departure entitlements and MBA fees, while Gianni Infantino and FIFA denied the allegations.
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino strongly denied allegations that UEFA made a six-figure departure payout to cover up an alleged affair with a lower-level employee while he served as the organization's general secretary.
- A Daily Telegraph report claimed the woman received a six-figure sum and funded MBA tuition after former UEFA President Michel Platini allegedly confronted Infantino about the relationship, prompting an agreement for her departure.
- UEFA confirmed issuing a departure payment and covering business school fees for the former administrative staff member, but maintained the package fully complied with governing regulations in place at the time.
- FIFA called the claims "categorically untrue" and defamatory, emphasizing that no internal complaints were ever filed regarding Infantino's conduct and that all severance agreements were approved through standard corporate procedures.
- The scandal emerges during an intense period of scrutiny for Infantino, following mounting backlash and threats of boycotts from European and American federations over his now-abandoned plan to sell commercial stakes in FIFA competitions.
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The Telegraph revealed that the Swiss, when he was secretary general of the governing body, promoted the promotion of an employee with whom he allegedly had an extramarital relationship.
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Infantino denies allegations of affair, favouritism while at UEFA: report
According to The Telegraph, the Italian-Swiss lawyer, who served as secretary general of European football's governing body from 2009 to 2016, also previously used his influence to secure a promotion for the same UEFA employee with whom he was in an intimate relationship. Infantino has categorically denied the allegations, according to the article which was published late on Friday. When contacted by AFP on Saturday, a FIFA spokesperson had not…
The President of Fifa is accused of using his power to promote a UEFA employee with whom he had an intimate relationship.
In his time as Uefa General Secretary, Infantino is said to have negotiated a high level of compensation for a close employee – the Uefa now confirms the payment.
Among the columns of The Telegraph comes a new accusation against President Fifa, Gianni Infantino, who more and more slips into trouble after the chronicles of recent months. It was not enough the controversy raised together with Trump during the World Cup or the idea then rejected to privatise the international football competition. According to the British newspaper, the Swiss leader, at the time he was Secretary General Uefa, would have had …
According to an investigation by the "Daily Telegraph", published on Friday, 7 August, a lover of Infantino would have received severance pay from the European association, when Fifa's undisputed boss was the general secretary.
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