The court follows in the appeal procedure for dubious million payments of the once most powerful men in world football.
In the sensational FIFA fraud process, a Swiss court confirmed the acquittal for the former world leader Joseph S. Blatter and the former UEFA president Michel Platini.
In this way, the court in Muttenz in Muttenz in the appeal procedure for dubious million payments of the two most powerful men in world football followed. The public prosecutor had asked prison terms of one year and eight months to be probed.
Blatter (89) and Platini (69) had been acquitted in the first instance in the summer of 2022 – since a fraud was “not proven to be certainly proven to be certainly bordering on it”. In the subsequent autumn, the public prosecutor made an appeal, which FIFA joined as a suspected party under Blatter’s successor Gianni Infantino. However, the World Association was not represented at the hearing in Muttenz.
According to the prosecutors, Blatter Platini from the FIFA cash register had paid the equivalent of around two million euros without demonstrable reason. Both the Swiss Blatter and Platini described the payment since the beginning of the investigations as an oral fee for FIFA consultant activities Platios from 1999 to 2002. Blatter spoke of a “Gentlemen’s Agreement”.
Infantino is seen as the greatest profiteer of the FIFA scandal, which was blown up around ten years ago. At the time, the then UEFA general secretary used the resulting power vacuum by Blatter’s resignation and the cold position of its designated successor Platini and was elected as the new FIFA president in early 2016.
The affair was only flamed, “to prevent Michel Platini from becoming FIFA president,” said defender Dominic Nellen at the end of the hearing: “At the political and media level”, FIFA has already “won against Michel Platini” because this infantino no longer threatens.