Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini acquitted again at 2nd trial of financial wrongdoing at FIFA

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won again in court Tuesday and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors. The former FIFA president and former UEFA president were acquitted for a second time on charges of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $2 million US of FIFA money in 2011. Blatter, … Read more

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini cleared in corruption case

“After two acquittals, even the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland must realise that these criminal proceedings have definitively failed. Michel Platini must finally be left in peace in criminal matters,” Platini’s lawyer, Dominic Nellen, said in a statement. Source link