Thibaud D'Ales, one of the suspended Uefa president's representatives, has argued that a document obtained by a French newspaper proves his client has nothing to hide.
A lawyer for Michel Platini has insisted there was nothing secretive about the alleged "disloyal payment" his client received from Fifa that led to the suspension of the Frenchman and Sepp Blatter.
Thibaud D'Ales, one of Platini's representatives, was reacting to a report in French newspaper Journal du Dimanche, who claim to have obtained a document showing that the proposed 'salary' was mentioned in a 1998 Uefa executive committee report.
According to the document, Blatter "already announced that Platini would become the future sporting director of Fifa. Platini would therefore become part of Fifa".
It adds that "there has been talk about one million Swiss francs as a salary".
D'Ales told Journal du Dimanche: "This document demonstrates, contrary to everything the accusations are based upon, that nothing was occult (hidden) in Michel Platini's contract with Fifa, and that many people in Uefa and Fifa were aware of it in 1998."
D'Ales added that the accusations against his client were "unfounded" and insisted that Platini would clear his name.
Platini and Blatter have been handed 90-day provisional bans from all football activities while the transaction is subject to a criminal investigation by the Swiss attorney general.
The duo are due to attend personal hearings with Fifa's ethics judge from December 16 in relation to the payment of two million Swiss francs received by Platini for work he claims to have carried out for Fifa between 1999 and 2002.
Platini was the favourite to be elected as Blatter's successor as Fifa president in February next year but he is currently unable to campaign under the terms of his suspension, which he has appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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