Michel Platini has been given permission by Fifa’s ethics committee to address the Uefa congress in Athens this week despite his four-year ban from all football-related activity.

Uefa requested that Platini be allowed to speak on Wednesday at the congress, at which the election of his successor as Uefa president is on the agenda.

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The 61-year-old Frenchman and former Fifa president Sepp Blatter were initially given eight-year bans by Valencia Fußballtrikots world football’s governing body in December over a 2m Swiss francs payment, worth around £1.5m at current exchange rates, made by Blatter to Platini in 2011. That December ruling was reduced to six years by a Fifa appeal panel in February.

In May, Platini’s suspension was reduced again to four years by the court of arbitration for Sport (Cas), but the Lausanne-based court backed Fifa’s judgement that the payment was “unfair” and a “conflict of interests”. Blatter is currently waiting for the result of his appeal against the ban.

Platini released a statement at that point confirming he would be resigning and describing the Cas decision as “a profound injustice”.

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Uefa’s statement on Monday read: “The Fifa ethics committee has informed Uefa that Michel Platini will be allowed to address the 12th extraordinary Uefa congress in Athens on September 14. A request for Mr Platini’s attendance had been Juventus Fußballtrikots recently made by Uefa and we welcome this decision. The agenda of the congress includes the election of the Uefa president.”

A spokesman for Fifa’s ethics committee, Marc Tenbucken, told Press Association Sport: “Uefa formally asked the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee for an exception for Michel Platini to be able to make a short farewell address to its congress in Athens.

“The chairman of the adjudicatory chamber, Mr Hans-Joachim Eckert, granted this exception as a gesture of humanity.”

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