Thursday, August 27, 2026 - UEFA is preparing a criminal complaint against Gianni Infantino following the FIFA president’s plan to sell off commercial stakes in the World Cup.
A 56-page document, filed by UEFA’s lawyers in a court in
the United States, declares that UEFA is “preparing to bring criminal claims in
Switzerland against Infantino” for “criminal mismanagement”.
The filing states that Infantino’s hastily drawn-up plan to
sell off a 20 per cent stake in the World Cup to private investors for $4.2bn
represented “an absurdly low enterprise value” and accused the FIFA president
of standing to gain financially in a process that was “neither the product of
an open, competitive auction, nor tested by any independent valuer”.
The legal document seen by Sky News said:
"UEFA and other interested parties are preparing to bring criminal claims
in Switzerland against Infantino and possibly other FIFA officials and advisors
for criminal mismanagement under Article 158 of the Swiss Criminal Code and
such further or alternative charges as the developed factual record may
support, arising out of the secretive structuring, valuation, financing, and
marketing of a transaction that inflicted direct and concrete injury on FIFA's
reputation, governance authority, and commercial relationships to the detriment
of FIFA as well as its 211 members, including UEFA's 55 member
associations."
The application was lodged by UEFA in the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York against JP Morgan Bank as
well as planned lead investor Thrive Capital and its CEO, Joshua Kushner, who
is the brother of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner
UEFA is targeting FIFA through courts in Miami, where the
world body's legal team is based.
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