The indictment against the former FIFA President and his UEFA counterpart was validated by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court. The two men will be judged from June 8 to 22, as part of a trial for “suspicions of scam, abuse of confidence, unfair management and false in the titles”.
Ancient allies became irreconcilable rivals, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will meet, the time of a trial. The former President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) and the former boss of the Union of European Soccer Soccer Associations (UEFA) will appear from June 8 to 22, before the Criminal Court of the Federal Criminal Tribunal (TPF) Bellinzone Switzerland, at a hearing that promises to be the organ point of a politico-judicial sag of more than six years.
m. Blatter, 86, will be judged for “suspicions of scam, in the alternative, abuse of confidence, even more subsidiaously, of unfair management as well as false in the titles”. As for the ex-number 10 of the blues, 66 years, who had not been able to brigper the succession of Mr. Blatter at the head of FIFA, in 2016, because of this case, he will appear for “suspicions of Scam, in the alternative, even more subsidiaously, to participate in unfair management, as an accomplice, as well as false in the titles “.
At the end of six years of procedure, the Crown of the Confederation (MPC) Helvetique filed, in November 2021, an indictment against the two former leaders in the context of the presumed payment of 2 million francs. Swiss that Mr. Blatter made Mr. Platini in February 2011. The TPF validated the indictment of the MPC and the hearing debates will take place in German.
In its November indictment, that [Nute] consulted, the federal prosecutor Thomas Hildebrand complains to the two men to have “deceived” Markus Kattner, then FIFA Chief Financial Officer, doing “arguing that A claim existed between Platini and FIFA, to the extent that Platini initially said to Mr. Kattner, before or on February 26, 2010, contrary to the facts, that FIFA still owed to him for his work to advise. of Mr. Blatter] carried out during the years 1999-2002.
The invoice of 2011
the MPC recalls that Mr. Platini sent to Mr. Kattner on 17 January 2011 a “invoice of a net amount of 2 million Swiss francs and argues an agreement that did not actually exist concerning a Payment of salary of 500,000 Swiss francs per year for the years 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, but would have been postponed. In addition, it required the payment of all social security contributions. to this amount, including those at the expense of the employee. “
Before that, according to the MPC, Mr. Kattner “has established by two employees of the Finance Department, for the first time before or on February 26, 2010, then in March and July 2010, an overview of the allowances paid to Platini by FIFA for its advisor activities made in 1998, or even 1999 “.
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