Sepp Blatter
has said he will remain as Fifa president despite criminal proceedings being
opened against him by Swiss investigators.
An
investigation was opened into Blatter on Friday over suspicions of criminal
mismanagement.
The Swiss is
suspected of signing a contract that was "unfavourable to Fifa" and
making a "disloyal payment" to Uefa president Michel Platini.
Blatter, 79,
said he had "had done nothing illegal or improper".
Blatter has said he will hand over power in February when an emergency election is held, triggered by the president's resignation statement four days after being re-elected for a fifth, four-year term in May.
There was
silence on Monday from UEFA President Michel Platini, who was the favorite to
succeed Blatter before he too became embroiled in the scandal last week.
Blatter was
questioned by Swiss investigators on Friday about why FIFA paid 2 million Swiss
francs (about $2 million) to Platini in 2011 for work supposedly carried out at
least nine years earlier. Blatter denied wrongdoing and Platini was only
questioned as a witness.
Blatter is
also suspected of awarding undervalued World Cup broadcasting rights to former
vice president Jack Warner in 2005.
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