Blatter 'willing to co-operate' with FBI over FIFA investigation
Sepp Blatter has told Sky Sports News HQ he will co-operate with any investigation into FIFA as he fights his ban from football.
The former FIFA president was suspended for eight years, later reduced to six, over a 2011 payment to UEFA counterpart Michel Platini.
Both men have failed to overturn their appeals at FIFA and are now in the process of appealing to the sport's highest judicial body, the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
And in the meantime Blatter says he will talk to the FBI, Swiss authorities or anyone else investigating corruption allegations which have snowballed since the arrests of several FIFA officials last May on the eve of the organization's annual conference.
Asked if the FBI had been in touch he told SSNHQ: "Direct contact? No, but they have asked the Swiss authorities to make some questions.
"I haven't been questioned, neither by one nor the other organization so far. I am willing to co-operate with all investigators in the US or here.
"I fight for me and my personal reputation and I'm also defending FIFA in these different cases in different courts.
"They have asked me in some cases for testimony and in other cases for information, and I'll do it because they think I can explain a little bit what happened in FIFA."
Asked directly, meanwhile, whether the £1.3m payment to Platini was to stop his long-time ally standing against him in FIFA's presidential election, Blatter said: "Totally not."
