UEFA Seeks FIFA Answers on Investment Plan by November 2

UEFA has asked FIFA to provide answers and documents by November 2 on decisions involving president Gianni Infantino, a proposed World Cup investment plan and the Folarin Balogun disciplinary case, while calling for an independent investigation into the abandoned plan. In a letter sent on October 19, UEFA General Secretary Theodore Theodoridis wrote to FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafstrom on behalf of European members of the FIFA Council. The request followed a council meeting the previous week at which Infantino was questioned and council members were asked to submit questions in writing, according to the supplied reporting. UEFA says the requested material should explain how relevant decisions were made, whether FIFA’s governing bodies were consulted and how potential conflicts of interest were assessed. Its questions include the development and proposed valuation of FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE, and the decision to give Joshua Kushner, the brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, exclusivity as lead investor. The proposal would have sold private investors a 20% stake in a company intended to run the World Cup and other competitions. Infantino withdrew it on August 1...