FIFA is expected to cover Gianni Infantino’s legal costs as UEFA considers launching “criminal proceedings” against him in Switzerland.Infantino, the FIFA president, has been under intense scrutiny since abandoning his failed FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) plan that would have seen world football’s governing body sell a minority stake in its commercial and event operations, including the men’s and women’s World Cup, to private investors, and is now facing the prospect of litigation.UEFA, European football’s governing body, has made no secret of the fact they want Infantino to resign and raised the stakes by lodging several legal filings across the United States in an attempt to force him out.On August 28, UEFA, in a legal document filed in the U.S. and seen by The Athletic, has accused Infantino of “promoting” a “fraudulently off-market price for his own benefit” when proposing to sell a 20 per cent stake in FIFA’s commercial and event operations to Thrive Eternal — a U.S. investment fund run by Joshua Kushner — for $4.2billion (£3.1bn).UEFA’s lawyers say that valuation was “absurdly low”, stating that it was not “the product of an open, competitive auction” and adding that it was “not tested by any independent valuer”. FIFA is yet to respond to the legal filings made against Infantino.The FIFA sell-off scandal, explainedHannah Vanbiber and Reuben PinderAlthough UEFA is targeting Infantino as opposed to FIFA, world football’s governing body is due to cover the 56-year-old’s legal costs in relation to the case. The reason for this is because Infantino was acting on behalf of the organisation and in his role as president.