UEFA is preparing a complaint accusing FIFA President Gianni Infantino of “criminal mismanagement” over an abandoned proposal to bring private investment into the World Cup, according to a document seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"UEFA is actively considering legal action arising out of and in connection with the...plan proposed by FIFA," read the legal document filed in a Florida court in the United States.
"More specifically, 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."
UEFA, whose threat to boycott World Cups is widely seen as having been pivotal in Infantino's humiliating climbdown just days after launching the proposal, laid out a long list of documents they wanted access to pertaining to the background of the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) plan.
These include a meeting that was held at a hotel in New York City on the eve of the World Cup final last month and which several senior FIFA directors attended where they were, according to the New York Times, apprised of the plan.
