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Dyke to explain Platini support (October 28th 2015)

Greg Dyke will be asked why the FA supported Michel Platini for the presidency of FIFA when he appears before MPs on Wednesday. ( A Select Committee)

The FA had backed Platini's candidacy for the FIFA presidency but has since suspended its support after the UEFA president was provisionally banned for 90 days pending a disciplinary hearing into a £1.3m payment he received in 2011.

Dyke will be appearing before a Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee on the same day the world governing body confirms the final list of candidates for next February's presidential election.

Platini is expected to be on that list, which should number eight candidates and also include a second UEFA entrant in general secretary Gianni Infantino.

The DCMS select committee will also hear evidence from FIFA sponsors Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Visa.

A meeting of the committee on Tuesday heard that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is looking at potential money-laundering offences involving the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

SFO director David Green said it had no jurisdiction to go after FIFA under bribery laws but that there may have been potential money-laundering offences. One of these involved a £270,000 payment (500,000 Australian dollars) payment by the Australia 2022 bid committee to Jack Warner which may have gone through London.

Green said: "We are still examining issues around possible money laundering and I won't be able to go into detail as new information has come to us quite recently."

Asked about the Australia payment, Green said: "I cannot confirm the assertion that money went through London - it certainly started off in Sydney and appears to have ended up in Trinidad.

"It could be money laundering yes. Whether the money came through London is important. There are outstanding matters which touch upon money laundering, there are a number of matters we are still looking at and digging in to."