FIFA, Blatter and Michel Platini

Ex-FIFA and UEFA chiefs Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini return to court to face corruption charge
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini are due to appear in court in Switzerland on Monday accused of fraud – two-and-a-half years after they were cleared.
Former football leaders Blatter and Platini in court again over €2.1 million FIFA payment
The two men were acquitted almost three years ago, but the Swiss Attorney General's Office and FIFA appealed against the decision. View on euronews
Former soccer leaders Blatter and Platini arrive at court for second trial over $2M FIFA payment
Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter arrived at a Swiss court Monday for his fresh trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges, appearing frail one week before his 89th birthday. “I am hopeful,” Blatter told reporters in German as he walked slowly down a flight of stairs toward the court house,
Soccer-Ex-FIFA chief Blatter states his innocence on court return over fraud case
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was innocent when he appeared in a Swiss court on Monday alongside France soccer great Michel Platini, 2-1/2 years after they were both cleared of fraud. Blatter and Platini were acquitted in 2022 at a lower Swiss court following a seven-year investigation into a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.
‘That’s not me’: Blatter denied fraud as £1.6m Platini row returns to court
Former Fifa kingpin Sepp Blatter reiterated his innocence over a £1.6m payment made to ex-Uefa chief Michel Platini as the fraud case returned to court on Monday. Two of football’s most influential figures of the 21st century are back in the dock after Swiss prosecutors appealed a decision to acquit both men at a previous
Blatter and Platini back in court in Swiss Fifa fraud case
Ex-Fifa head Sepp Blatter and French football great Michel Platini were cleared in 2022, but prosecutors appealed.
Swiss prosecutor seeks suspended sentences for Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini
Prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand opted not to call for prison sentences for the 88-year-old Swiss and 69-year-old Frenchman. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini return to court to face corruption charge
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Switzerland Blatter Platini Trial
Ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves the special appeals court on Monday in Muttenz, Switzerland. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.
Defence pleads for acquittal for Blatter and Platini in fraud trial
The defence lawyers of former FIFA president Joseph Blatter and former UEFA boss Michel Platini have pleaded for another acquittal of their clients in the new round of a legal dispute over suspicion of fraud in Muttenz,
Former football leaders Blatter, Platini return to court for new fraud trial over $2M FIFA payment
Former football leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were back in a Swiss court Monday as their new trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges opened.
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Swiss prosecutors seek suspended sentences for Blatter and Platini
The Swiss public prosecutor on Tuesday requested suspended sentences of 20 months for both Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini in ...
Fraud case designed to wreck Platini's chance of FIFA top job, lawyer says
French footballing great Michel Platini was accused of fraud to torpedo his chances of becoming the head of world soccer's ...
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Ex-football chiefs deny wrongdoing on first day of fraud retrial
At the end of their first day of their fraud retrial, former football chiefs Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini denied any ...