The Swiss prosecutor’s office required, Wednesday, a year and eight months in prison with the UEFA president and the former FIFA boss in the alleged disloyal payment case of two million Swiss francs made, in 2011, to M. Platini.
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The crossed arms and the black eye, Sepp Blatter remained marble when prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand required against him and Michel Platini, Wednesday, June 15, a “private sentence of one year and eight months” Surprise with “a two -year test period”. Sitting in the front row in the great courtroom of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (TPF) in Bellinzone, the former president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), 86, collected without flinching, for almost five hours, The long indictment of the representative of the public prosecutor of the Confederation (MPC), on the sixth day of his trial.
The second defendant, Michel Platini, was not present: the former boss of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) was provided by the TPF to attend the audiences for a week. But, from his cassis house (Bouches-du-Rhône), he had to read the verbatim of the shattering load of Mr. Hildbrand, who has led to the investigation of the procedure against MM. Platini and Blatter for “suspicions of scam, unfair management, breach of trust and false in the titles”.
Méticularly, the magistrate has cut the defendants’ defense in the alleged disloyal payment case of two million Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) that Mr. Blatter made, in February 2011, in February 2011, Mr. Platini. Hands grabbed to his desk, he swept away the thesis of the “wage remainder” which would have been allegedly paid to the French for the years during which (1998-2002) he officiated as an adviser to Sepp Blatter. The defendants ensure that they have sealed, in 1998, an “oral agreement” fixing a remuneration of one million Swiss annual francs to Mr. Platini.
For Mr. Hildbrand, “no verbal contract existed neither before nor after the election of Blatter to FIFA [in June 1998] because he could not exist legally”. He recalls that the two defendants initialed, in August 1999, a contract fixing the remuneration of the ex-player as “independent” up to the “salary of the secretary general of FIFA”, to 300,000 Swiss francs annual.
The prosecutor notes that the tandem did not indicate on the 1999 contract a possible balance of 700,000 Swiss annual francs which should have been paid “later”. “Mr. Blatter says that there is not thought of it. We are not in front of a simplelet from the mountains. We are talking about the president of a billionaire company with an auto -declared flair for commercial affairs,” said Small M. Hildbrand, while pointing out, in support, that, “From 2002 to 2010, FIFA had enough liquidity to, if necessary, pay the alleged claims of Mr. Platini to one million per million An “.
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