Former UEFA president Michel Platini has filed a lawsuit against FIFA for alleged "slanderous denunciation" and "criminal conspiracy to commit the offense of slanderous denunciation" in relation to the ban the governing body gave him in 2015.
Platini's communications team confirmed the news to the Associated Press' Samuel Petrequin. French newspaper Le Monde (h/t Petrequin) reported the specifics of the complaint.
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