Platini has long said, and Blatter repeated Tuesday, that he declared the payment and paid taxes on it in Switzerland.
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“This is all the more reason,” Platini told Italian daily Gazzetta dello Sport in the 2008 offseason, “why I do not support the admission of a club like Porto, involved this year in corruption.”
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