Marangos failed to meet UEFA’s deadline of last Wednesday to provide evidence that payments of €9.15 million were made to at least four voting executive committee members.
“We are in the process of opening legal proceedings against him to protect the corporate image of UEFA and also to force his hand to show us what evidence he has,” said UEFA spokesman Rob Faulkner. “He said it was too short notice for him to travel to Switzerland [by Wednesday] and he wanted us to go there [to Cyprus].”
Two European newspapers, Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Germany and Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, have run articles this week giving more detail of Marangos’ claims.
