FIFA: Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter charged by Swiss Parquet

The Crown of the Helvetic Confederation “refers to judgment” before the Federal Criminal Tribunal The former President of the UEFA and that of FIFA to “have illicitly arranged” a payment of two million Swiss francs of the FIFA, in 2011, in favor of French.

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The Blatter-Platini affair is going on to know his judgment in Switzerland. The Crown of the Helvetic Confederation (MPC) accused, Tuesday, November 2, the former Swiss President of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, 85, and the former boss of the Union of Associations European football (UEFA), Michel Platini, 66, in the case of the presumed payment of two million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros) made, in February 2011, by the first to the second.

The Swiss prosecutor has announced the “Reference for Judgment” of the two men in the Federal Criminal Court of Bellinzone as part of a trial. The Swiss prosecutor has filed an indictment against Mr. Blatter for “scammers, allegedly abuse of confidence, even more subsidiaously unfair management as well as false in the titles”. Mr Platini is accused “of scam, in the alternative to participation in abuse of confidence, even more subsidiaously of participation in unfair management, as an accomplice, as well as false in the titles”.

As recalled by the Swiss prosecutor’s office, “between 1998 and 2002, Mr. Platini has worked as a consultant for the FIFA President, Mr. Blatter. In 1999, he was agreed with compensation. Annual of 300,000 Swiss francs for this consulting activity, in a written contract, signed [in 1999] at the same time by J. Blatter and M. Platini. The compensation agreed under this contract was billed by Mr. Platini Each time and fully paid by FIFA. “

“More than eight years after the end of his advisor activity, Mr. Platini has argued a debt of two million Swiss francs, develops the floor. With the contest of Mr. Blatter, a corresponding payment has been paid by FIFA to Mr. Platini in early 2011. The evidence gathered by the MPC has reinforced the suspicion that this payment to Platini was carried out without the foundation. This payment infringed the FIFA heritage and provided to Mr. Platini a illegitimate enrichment. “

Extended criminal procedure

“I do not fear to go to court and have nothing to reproach me, assures the world Sepp Blatter. It will give me the opportunity to tell the truth about this case.” “I’m 100% sure We can prove the innocence of Mr. Platini before the Tribunal “, reacts M e Dominic Nellen, the lawyer of Mr. Platini.

In order to investigate the criminal proceedings since 2019, the federal prosecutor Thomas Hildebrand suspects the two men to lie in their entourage as to the reason for this payment made a few months before the re-election of Mr. Blatter, in June 2011 , at the head of FIFA. The magistrate does not believe in the version given by MM. Blatter and Platini: these ensure that this payment corresponded, by virtue of an “oral contract” sealed in 1998, to a balance of wages paid to Mr Platini for the period during which French officials officiated as the President of the President of the President FIFA (1999-2002).

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