The committee is looking into a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs (dollars) Platini received from FIFA in 2011 for work done between 1999 and 2002.
The issue was revealed in a statement from Switzerland's Attorney General on Friday in which the start of a criminal investigation against Blatter was announced.
Apart apart from the payment the probe involves a contract, likely on TV rights, with the Caribbean football union from 2005.
Blatter was interrogated by Swiss police and the UEFA boss Platini heard as a witness. Platini said there was nothing wrong about the payment.
Blatter's lawyer did not refer to the Platini payment but said the TV deal, which investigators believe was too low and thus denied FIFA higher income, was according to the rules and sanctioned by those routinely involved in such issues.
It is unclear whether Blatter 79, faces a suspension from the ethics committee and he had not resigned by Sunday in spite of widespread calls to do so in the wake of the Swiss probe on suspicion of "mismanagement – and – alternatively – misappropriation."
Blatter's former adviser, Klaus J Stoehlker, told the Schweiz am Sonntag paper, a resignation is "no issue" and that Blatter is not concerned about the probe.
Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term on May 29 but said four days later he would lay down his mandate at an extraordinary FIFA congress which has now been scheduled for Feb. 26.
Platini is among the candidates seeking the presidency, while Cameroon's Issa Hayatou would act as caretaker in his capacity as senior vice president until February should Blatter resign or be suspended.
Former FIFA anti-corruption expert Mark Pieth meanwhile told the Sunday edition of the Neue Zuercher Zeitung that FIFA should in the case of Blatter's resignation elect an interim president "who comes from within its ranks, is acceptable and should stay on for lets say two years to calm things down."
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