UEFA president Michel Platini has had his ban from all football-related activity reduced to four years after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Platini was banned by FIFA’s ethics committee for eight years over a “disloyal payment” he received in February 2011 from the world governing body’s former president Sepp Blatter.

The ban was reduced to six years by FIFA’s appeals committee and on Monday it was further reduced by CAS. Here are the key findings behind the CAS ruling.

:: The CAS arbitral panel was “not convinced by the legitimacy” of a 2million Swiss francs (£1.4m) payment from FIFA to Michel Platini in February 2011. The panel found the payment was “not based on any document established at the time of the contractual relations” between FIFA and Platini that existed between 1999 and 2002.

:: Platini had claimed that the payment was “back pay” but CAS found that it did not correlate with the alleged unpaid part of his salary .

:: CAS found Platini obtained an undue advantage in breach of Article 20 of the FIFA code of ethics and that he was guilty of a conflict of interest in breach of Article 19 of the code.

:: The panel noted that Platini took advantage of an extension to a pension plan to which he was not entitled.

:: CAS found that the initial FIFA sanction was too severe, and imposed a four-year ban, which corresponds to the duration of a presidential term.