Former FIFA officials Blatter and Platini going back to court for new trial after acquittal in 2022

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Fraud case designed to wreck Platini's chance of FIFA top job, lawyer says

ZURICH : French footballing great Michel Platini was accused of fraud to torpedo his chances of becoming the head of world soccer's governing body FIFA, his lawyer told a Swiss court on Wednesday.Platini, a former captain and manager of the French national team who also used to run Europe's football autho

On the third day of the trial against the football officials Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini, their defenders defend themselves against the accusations of fraud. For their clients, they demand an acquittal.

Muttenz. The Swiss prosecution yesterday requested a year and eight months in suspended detention against Joseph Blatter, former FIFA president, and Michel Platini, former UEFA leader, who are being tried again for fraud after a review of their acquittal in first instance in 2022.

The actions of the defendants were aimed solely at the unjustified accumulation of Platini's wealth, the indictment states. Almost ten years after the outbreak of the “FifaGate” scandal, Platini and Blatter are retried, from March 3 to 6, for “fraud, dishonest management, breach of trust and false securities”. At the end of his indictment on Tuesday afternoon at the criminal justice center in Muttenz (near Basel), federal prosecutor Thomas Hildb…

Just three years ago, the former football bosses Josef Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted. Now they are on trial again. It is about a dubious payment of two million Swiss francs.