Ex-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini cleared of corruption charges
Updated On: 09 July, 2022 07:58 AM IST | Bellinzona | AFP
In a short statement, the former French football great claimed to have “won the first round,” while alluding to alleged political and judicial manipulation intended to remove him from power
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An ecstatic Sepp Blatter outside Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court yesterday. Pic/AFP
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the chiefs of world and European football, were cleared on Friday over a suspected fraudulent payment that shook the sport and torpedoed their time at the top.
Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona acquitted the pair in a trial following a mammoth investigation that began in 2015. Former FIFA president Blatter, 86, and Platini, 67, listened in silence as the clerk read out the judgement which rejected the prosecution’s request for a suspended prison sentence of a year and eight months.
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