FILE PHOTO: Former UEFA President Michel Platini speaks before the election of the new UEFA President in Athens, Greece September 14, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
PARIS (Reuters) - Former European soccer chief Michel Platini has said he has been cleared by Swiss authorities of any criminal wrongdoing over payments he received from FIFA that resulted in a ban for ethics violations and that he now plans to return to the game.
The Frenchman was banned from all soccer-related activities over a two million Swiss francs ($2.02 million) payment FIFA made to him in 2011, with former chief Sepp Blatter's approval, for work done a decade earlier.
