Former UEFA president Michel Platini said on Tuesday he was demanding that the Confederation pay back salary arrears and a bonus "stipulated in his contract" as well as pay for a lawyer. According to sources close to the dossier, Platini, whose four-year suspension ended in early October, is demanding 7.2 million euros, including 5.5 million euros in salary arrears, figures not confirmed by the former president of the Confederation. Platini told AFP: "Through lawyers, I ask for the application of contractual elements." He considered that the amounts traded «wrong». Platini, according to sources close to the dossier, is demanding a € 1.8 million reward for his contribution to the success of the 2016 European Cup hosted by France, paying € 636,000 for lawyers and salary arrears for the period 2016-2019.
The 64-year-old, who presided over the Confederation between 2007 and 2015, was suspended from football for eight years in mid-December 2015, reducing the sports arbitration court to four years the following year, after accepting a suspicious payment in 2011 of 1.8 One million euros for consultative work in 2002 by former FIFA president Joseph Blatter, who has been suspended for six years without a written contract.