After a seven-year investigation, the two football powerbrokers are in court this week to face fraud, embezzlement and corruption charges
to the prosecutors’ case. “Joseph S Blatter and Michel François Platini are accused of illegally obtaining a payment of CHF 2m to the detriment of Fifa and social security contributions of CHF 229,126 in favour of Platini,” they state. “Among other things, Platini submitted a presumably fictitious invoice to Fifa in 2011 for an [allegedly] still existing claim for his consulting work for Fifa between 1998 and 2002.
In his statement Platini, a three-time Ballon d’Or winner who guided France to the European Championship in 1984, said: “I fully contest these unfounded and unfair accusations.” The trial is the culmination of a case that began in 2015 when Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings against Blatter before aThat led to Blatter stepping down as Fifa president just days after winning a record fifth election and ended Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor.
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