The public prosecutor of the Confederation confirmed to the “world” the deposit, on July 15, of a request for appeal following the release, on July 8, of Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter.
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acquitted at first instance, on July 8, will Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter be reached by the Court of Appeal of the Swiss Federal Criminal Tribunal (TPF) of Bellinzone? The public prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation (MPC) in any case confirmed to the world having filed “an appeal announcement”, on July 15, with the TPF, following the release of the ex-French president of the ‘Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the former boss of the International Football Federation (FIFA) in the alleged disloyal payment case of two million Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) received from Mr. Blatter, in February 2011, by the ex-player.
The MPC had ten days to file such a request for appeal. He thus sketches his intention. After the notification of the reasoned judgment, in several months, the prosecution will have twenty days to confirm in writing this call or renounce it. “The judgment which will be motivated in writing by the court will serve as the basis of examination for the rest of the MPC procedure,” says the prosecution.
On July 8, the TPF had granted the benefit of the doubt to the defendants, prosecuted for “suspicions of scam, unfair management, breach of trust and false in the titles”. Believing that “the facts of the accusation cannot be proven with a probability close to certainty”, the court had based itself on “the most favorable version to the accused” and considered “as probable” that the payment made to Mr. Platini “represents a balance for his activity as a consultant”, between 1998 and 2002, with Mr. Blatter.
This judgment constitutes a disavowal for the MPC, which had requested against the two defendants a “private sentence” for a year and eight months suspended.
a sensitive file for Gianni Infantino
Civil party in this procedure, has FIFA also filed a call announcement? Contacted on this point by Le Monde, the body did not respond. The file is sensitive for its president, Gianni Infantino, ex-right of the right of Mr. Platini at UEFA.
At open war with MM. Platini and Blatter, the boss of world football has itself been the subject of criminal procedure in Switzerland, since July 2020, because of its secret meetings (without minutes) with the former Swiss prosecutor Michael LAUBER , in 2016 and 2017.
Invited by the TPF to act “by civilian way”, FIFA has already filed a civilian complaint against MM. Platini and Blatter, in December 2019, with the heritage chamber of the Lausanne court in order to be returned the sum paid to the French.
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