Former President FIFA Sepp Blatter and French Football Legend Michel Platini were acquitted of corruption by the Swiss Court on Tuesday, two and a half years after the first time of those accusations.
Blatter and Platini, who were once among the most powerful world football figures, are acquitted for fraud at the Broadcar Criminal Court in Muttenz, near Basel.
The hearing followed the Swiss federal prosecutors appealed against their liberation 2022. in the lower court. They both denied the accusation.
– After two releases, even the Office of the Swiss State Prosecutor must realize that these criminal proceedings have definitely failed. Michel Platini must finally be left alone in criminal matters – said Platin’s lawyer Dominic Nellen in the statement, reports Reuters.
The case referred to the payment of 2 million Swiss francs, which Blatter was approved by Platini, former captain and a selector of the French national team, 2011. years.
This payment was a consulting fee for the work conducted between 1998. and 2002. years, and the French said that part of the fee was delayed because FIFA did not have the entire amount.
The scandal, who broke out in 2015. while Platini was the president of UEFA, he ended his hopes to succeed Blatter, who had to leave the FIFA because of that scandal.
– Criminal proceedings had not only legal, but also huge personal and professional consequences for Michel Platinia – although no offensive evidence has ever been presented. Among other things, the criminal proceedings prevented him from the President of FIFA in 2016. years – Nellen said.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
