for 90 days.
Members of Fifa's ethics committee met this week after the
Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings against
Blatter, 79, last month.
He is accused of signing a contract "unfavourable" to football's
governing body and making a "disloyal payment" to Uefa
president Michel Platini, 60.
Swiss Blatter, who has run Fifa since 1998, and Platini, who
wants to succeed him, deny any wrongdoing.
A final decision will be made on Friday by Hans Joachim
Eckhert, the head of Fifa's ethics adjudicatory chamber,
according to a close friend of Blatter.
No decision has been made on whether to suspend Platini.
On Wednesday, Blatter told a German magazine that he was
being "condemned without there being any evidence for
wrongdoing".
The ethics committee had been meeting in Zurich since Monday.
The investigation is centred on allegations believed to be around
a 2005 TV rights deal between Fifa and Jack Warner, the former
president of Concacaf, the governing body of football in North
and Central America and the Caribbean.
It is also examining a payment of two million Swiss francs
(£1.35m) that Platini received in 2011 for working for Blatter. He
claims it was "valid compensation" for work carried out more
than nine years previously.
The Frenchman has provided information to the criminal
investigation but said he has done so as a witness.
Swiss prosecutors said he is being treated as "in between a
witness and an accused person" as they investigate corruption
at world football's governing body.
The latest development came hours after former Fifa vice-
president Chung Mong-joon, who is also under investigation by
Fifa's ethics committee, told BBC Sport that his campaign to
succeed Blatter was being "smeared".
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