{"id":266262,"date":"2025-03-25T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/sepp-blatter-and-michel-platini-cleared-of-fraud-charges-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:43:11","slug":"sepp-blatter-and-michel-platini-cleared-of-fraud-charges-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/sepp-blatter-and-michel-platini-cleared-of-fraud-charges-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini cleared of fraud charges in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France football legend Michel Platini have been cleared of fraud for a second time.<\/p>\n

The former FIFA president and former UEFA president were accused of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $2m (\u00a31.5m) of FIFA<\/a> <\/strong>money in 2011.<\/p>\n

The attorney general’s office in Switzerland had challenged a first acquittal in July 2022 and asked for sentences of 20 months, suspended for two years.<\/p>\n

Blatter, 89, and Platini, 69, once among the most powerful figures in football, have consistently denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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They were cleared of fraud at the Extraordinary Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Criminal Court in the town of Muttenz, near Basel.<\/p>\n

Blatter approved FIFA paying 2m Swiss francs (now $2.21m) to France football great Platini in February 2011 for supplementary and non-contracted salary working as a presidential adviser from 1998-2002.<\/p>\n

The Swiss federal investigation emerged in September 2015 as Platini was a strong favourite to succeed his one-time mentor in an upcoming election.<\/p>\n

The probe kicked off events which would ultimately bring to an end the careers of Blatter and Platini.<\/p>\n

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Though federal court trials have twice cleared their names, Blatter’s reputation likely always will be tied to leading FIFA during corruption crises that took down a swath of senior football officials worldwide.<\/p>\n

Platini, one of football’s greatest players and later Blatter’s prot\u00e9g\u00e9 in football politics, never got the FIFA presidency he aspired to.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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