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| Sepp Blatter will face a formal hearing this month |
SEPP BLATTER and Michel Platini will have formal hearings this month into allegations that they breached FIFA's ethics code - with investigators calling for bans of at least six years.
Hans-Joachim Eckert, the German judge who heads the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA's ethics committee, has opened proceedings against the pair after being accused of several breaches of FIFA's ethics code over a £1.3million payment made by FIFA to Platini in 2011. A decision is expected before Christmas.
Blatter and Platini - who are both provisionally suspended - face suspensions based on four potential ethics code breaches: mismanagement, conflict of interest, false accounting and non co-operation with or criticising the ethics committee.
Korea's former FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-Joon was banned for six years last month and the allegations are at least as serious as those he was sanctioned for.
FIFA's ethics committee said in a statement: "In the course of the proceedings, both parties will be invited to submit positions including any evidence with regard to the final reports of the investigatory chamber and they may request a hearing."
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