The Football Association says it is suspending backing for Michel Platini in his offer to end up Fifa president.
Uefa president Platini, a previous France skipper and supervisor, is being researched over a £1.35m installment he got from Sepp Blatter in 2011.
Blatter, the active president of world football's administering body, is under criminal examination over the installment. Both men deny any wrongdoing.
The FA settled on its choice after a Uefa meeting on Thursday.
Blatter and Platini, alongside secretary general Jerome Valcke, are serving 90-day suspensions forced by Fifa's morals board, which is researching the three over defilement charges.
A FA articulation read: "The FA wishes Mr Platini each achievement in battling these charges and demonstrating his innocence, and has no enthusiasm for making any move that endangers this procedure.
"Nonetheless, despite the above, at the Uefa meeting on Thursday, the FA adapted more data identifying with the issues at the focal point of this case from Mr Platini's legal advisors.
"We have been told that the data must be kept private and thusly we can't go into specifics.
"As a consequence of realizing this data, the FA Board has toward the beginning of today inferred that it must suspend its backing for Mr Platini's candidature for the Fifa administration until the legitimate procedure has been closed and the position is clear.
"A choice can then be tackled who to backing in the presidential race on 26 February 2016.
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