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Former FIFA and UEFA chiefs Blatter and Platini face corruption charges in court

2025-03-04 08:57:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Former FIFA and UEFA chiefs Blatter and Platini face corruption charges in court

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and French footballer Michel Platini will appear in court in Switzerland on fraud charges, two and a half years after they were acquitted.

The two men, once among the most senior figures in global football, were acquitted in 2022 in a lower Swiss court after a seven-year investigation into a two million Swiss franc ($2.22 million) payment to Platini.

The Swiss federal prosecutor has appealed against this decision, leading to a new hearing at the Extraordinary Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Criminal Court in Muttenz, near Basel.

"The Swiss Attorney General's Office (ZAP) has filed an appeal against the first-instance judgment and submitted a statement of appeal in October 2022 requesting that the judgment be annulled in its entirety," the prosecutor said.

The prosecution declined to provide further details.

The 2022 indictment accused Blatter and Platini of deceiving FIFA staff in 2010 and 2011 in connection with the world football governing body's obligation to pay the Frenchman, who was president of the game's European governing body UEFA at the time./CNA





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