UEFA announced on Saturday that they have launched a legal action against former Cyprus FA official Spyros Marangos over his allegations of corruption surrounding the appointment of Poland and Ukraine as the Euro 2012 hosts.

UEFA said in a statement released on Saturday that: "UEFA confirms that on Friday 29 October it officially lodged a legal complaint in Switzerland at the competent Swiss criminal court against Mr Spyros Marangos following the damaging, and as yet unsubstantiated, allegations made in the press surrounding the voting in 2007 for hosting Uefa Euro 2012.

"Uefa confirms that in parallel it has lodged a legal complaint in Cyprus at the very highest level with the Attorney General of Cyprus. Uefa has been obliged to take legal action firstly in order to establish whether any of the claims made by Mr Marangos have any substance to them, and therefore to make available any tangible elements in order to substantiate these claims. And secondly, to protect the integrity and the good name of Uefa and European football in general, which have been seriously damaged by these allegations."

Marangos, who left the CFA in 2007, claimed that money had changed hands before Poland and Ukraine won the race to stage the European Championships in two years' time.