FIFA's embattled president Sepp Blatter has said that he deserves an honorable exit from the world's football governing body, insisting that he is 'not a bad man'.
The 79-year-old along with his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini are serving a 90-day provisional ban handed by FIFA's ethics committee over claims that the latter had received a 'disloyal payment' of 1.35 million pounds from the outgoing president in 2011.
Describing the ethics commission's action against him as an 'inquisition', Blatter felt that he doesn't need to prove his innocence,Sport24reported.
Blatter, who was re-elected as the football chief for a fifth term in May, will leave his post when his successor will be appointed in February 2016.
FIFA investigators, who launched their own enquiry against Blatter, will issue a verdict next month.
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