On July 8, 2022, Michel Platini displayed a radiant face after the Bellinzone Federal Criminal Court relaxed him in the case of the alleged disloyal payment of two million Swiss francs in his favor by FIFA. But an appeal against the former UEFA leader and against the former boss of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, also accused, was then argued by the prosecution.
Two years later, the extraordinary court of appeal of the federal criminal tribunal united in Muttenz decided. This Tuesday, she acquitted the two men.
The ancient patterns of FIFA and UEFA.
In its requisition from the beginning of March, the prosecution had requested twenty months suspended prison sentence for each of the two accused. It was therefore not followed by the Swiss court in charge of the file. New relief for Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter, even if the case could once again be relaunched in court since a cassation appeal is possible. But this time exclusively for limited legal grounds, said RMC.
Another case that closes
The former tricolor international and Sepp Blatter appeared for four days about this famous payment equivalent to 1.8 million euros that the accusation deemed having been
“Obtained illegally” by Michel Platini. According to the two men, the payment of an annual salary of one million Swiss francs had however been agreed from the outset.
No writing, but a “Gentlemen oral agreement”. The accusation considered that the request for a claim of two million Swiss francs made by Michel Platini is akin to a “False invoice”. More than a decade has spent and at seventy-nine years, the former Juventus could well be rid of this story, a year after having already seen another dossier closing.
