Uefa consider opening ‘criminal proceedings’ against Gianni Infantino over World Cup sell-off plan

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Uefa are 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 and seen by The Independent, declare that Uefa are “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 “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”.

Infantino’s plans collapsed within days last month after Uefa threatened to boycott the World Cup and other Fifa competitions.

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