UEFA President Michel Platini is seen during the draw ceremony for the 2014/2015 Champions League soccer competition at Monaco's Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo August 28, 2014. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
PARIS (Reuters) - UEFA president Michel Platini, freshly embroiled in the FIFA scandal over a 1.8-million euro payment he received from president Sepp Blatter, called the French sports ministry to insist he had done nothing wrong.
"He has the feeling he is clean and he wanted to say it to me again," Secretary of State Thierry Braillard told French sports daily L'Equipe on Saturday.
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