UEFA confirms legal letter served to FIFA after Infantino’s World Cup plan
UEFA tells Al Jazeera a preservation letter is with FIFA following a failed Gianni Infantino-led World Cup sell-off. The European football body, UEFA, has confirmed to Al Jazeera that a preservation letter has been sent to the global governing body, FIFA, following Gianni Infantino’s failed plan to sell a stake in future World Cup profits to private investors. “We can confirm that a document preservation letter was sent,” UEFA wrote in an email to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, adding that no further comment would be made at this time. The preservation letter, a formal legal document, serves to notify FIFA that they should retain data, documents and electronic messages as potential evidence. Al Jazeera has contacted FIFA for a response. Infantino’s secretive proposal to raise $4.2bn from investors, including the New York investment firm of Joshua Kushner, was dropped early on Saturday, days after the revelation provoked a global furore.
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UEFA lawyers have extended their notice to FIFA, according to The Associated Press news agency, to inform them that the European body is “actively considering legal action, arbitration, and/or regulatory complaints … arising out of and in connection with the FFE [FIFA Forward Enterprise] plan proposed by FIFA and all related matters”. Hours earlier, Infantino had withdrawn the divisive proposal that offered FIFA’s 211 member federations one-off payments of $20m each with a mid-September deadline to accept.
