Uefa claims that the valuation of the stakes to be offered weren’t independently verified and would have been provided too cheaply, calling the proposed sale “a fraudulently off-market price promoted by Infantino for his own benefit”.
The utility provides: “Under the terms Infantino announced, those investors stood to acquire a permanent financial interest in Fifa’s commercial arm for $4.2bn, implying an absurdly low enterprise value of only approximately $20bn, a figure that was neither the product of an open, competitive auction, nor tested by any independent valuer.”
In the applying, Uefa is making use of to a courtroom in Florida to aim to entry information held by two Fifa companies – Fifa Americas and FWC2026 – for use to pursue the criminal fees in Switzerland at a later stage.
The two companies are primarily based in Florida.
Uefa claims that its 55 member nations would have probably been harmed by the sell-off plan, and that it might pursue criminal proceedings against different Fifa officers in addition to Infantino.
“Uefa and other interested parties are preparing to bring criminal claims in Switzerland against Infantino and possibly other Fifa officials and advisors for criminal mismanagement,” the applying states.
“The secretive structuring, valuation, financing, and marketing inflicted direct and concrete injury on Fifa’s reputation, governance authority, and commercial relationships to the detriment of Fifa as well as its 211 members, including Uefa’s 55 member associations.”
Uefa insists that the plan was concocted with out the information of them or different key stakeholders in soccer, and that it had been lengthy in improvement.
The purposes says: “On July 28, 2026, without consulting the Fifa Council, Uefa, or any of the other confederations, or any of the 211 Fifa member associations, Infantino, purportedly acting on behalf of Fifa, publicly announced a plan to place the commercial rights to the men’s and women’s World Cups and the Club World Cup into a new subsidiary: Fifa Forward Enterprise.
“That announcement by Infantino was the general public unveiling of a plan that he and a small circle of co-conspirators had conceived and reportedly been growing in secret for greater than a yr.”
Uefa states in the document that there has been “an everlasting historical past of corruption amongst Fifa officers” and claims that world football’s governing body only relents on its plans when pressure comes from outside the sport.
“Fifa’s extraordinary energy over world soccer has operated largely with out significant inside constraint, with accountability coming principally by exterior forces, together with political stress, public scrutiny, and intervention by worldwide criminal regulation enforcement,” the application adds.
Fifa’s headquarters are in the Swiss city of Zurich, and Uefa says that its plan to eventually pursue criminal charges against Infantino is backed up by Swiss law.
“Swiss counsel has confirmed […] that the continuing is inside affordable contemplation for functions of Swiss regulation and that Uefa has standing, as a complainant, to file a criminal criticism for criminal mismanagement against Infantino and probably different Fifa officers as could also be warranted.”
BBC Sport has been told that a separate filing has been lodged to a court in New York, where Uefa is seeking documentation from Thrive Capital, the business proposed to take up an interest in FFE, and its founder Josh Kushner, the brother of US president Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
The American investment bank JP Morgan is also named in the application.
A third application has also been made in Colorado, relating to former Formula 1 chief Greg Maffei, who is referred to in the court filings as “the important thing business adviser” on the proposed FFE transaction, and his Bann Ventures firm.
BBC Sport has additionally approached Uefa for remark.