Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two powerful football
figures, have been acquitted of fraud in a Swiss court.
Blatter, former FIFA president, and Platini, his vice, were
both found not guilty of corruption at Switzerland’s federal criminal court
following a two-week trial that ended on June 22.
The case is centred on a £1.6 million payment made by
Blatter to Platini in 2011.
The Swiss office of the attorney general (OAG) had accused
Blatter and Platini of “fraud, in the alternative of misappropriation, in the
further alternative of criminal mismanagement as well as of forgery of a
document.”
But during the trial, Blatter said the money paid to Platini
was a “gentleman’s agreement” for the job done as an advisor to the FIFA
president between 1998 and 2002.
The fate of the pair was known on Friday morning via a
verdict published by the three judges who presided over the trial.
Despite being cleared, the 86-year-old ex-FIFA president
remains banned from football until 2028 for a different punishment in 2021
while Platini, 67, has served his ban.
More to follow…
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