Indeed it was.
And what a "surprise" that Platini subsequently did not stand against Sepp on the very next vote for his FIFA presidency election in 2014. Funny, that.
Despite getting re-elected, he was a dead man walking. Only his own personal vanity saw him go through with that election charade, a final chance to wave triumphantly on a podium. Maybe it was the emergence of the letter today from SA proving that Valcke (and so implicitly HE) was fully aware of...