Swiss prosecutor’s office now request a sentence of one year and eight months in prison as suspense for Michel Platini and Joseph Blatt, Former President of the UEFA and FIFA respectively. Both are judged again from Monday after being released for the first time in a case of weak payment.
The extraordinary court of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, which gathered in Muttenz, will announce on March 25 its decision in this case, which ends at the trajectory of two international leaders with the head of their agencies and where they face up to five years in prison for fraud.
The same penalty he requested in 2022
The prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand, who resigned to request a prison penalty for Platini, 69, and Blatt, 88, asked that the penalty would be suspended during a two trial period, as he had done in the first trial in 2022.
For three and a half hours, Hildbrand focuses on denying the theory of an “oral contract” between both leaders replacement The counselor conducted by Platini between 1998 and 2002, When he united only forces with Swiss to bring him to the presidency of FIFA.
The contract of the discord
Blatter and Platini are effectively signed An agreement written in August 1999, Where FIFA is expected to pay 300,000 Swiss Francs each year in Platini. But they assured that they agreed to pay 700,000 francs in the year when the organization’s finances allowed it.
Platini, who subsequently (in 2007) became President of the UEFA, explained that at the beginning of 2011 he showed an invoice of two million Swiss Francs (1.8 million euros), signed by Blatter and presented to FIFA as a backward salary balance.
The prosecutor, strong in his arguments
Hildbrand insisted that, even though FIFA moved a million Swiss Francs to Platini in 1999, it will still have “more than 21 million francs in cash” and their reserves reached 328 million in 2002.
To agree with such a worthless action, without witnesses and without the activities it is also “contrary to commercial use” and FIFA practices, Haldibrand insisted.
Initially, fraud released in 2022, the Swiss prosecutor’s office appealed to the sentence in front of the criminal court. The appeal test, which began on Monday, will last no later than Thursday with defense arguments.
Although FIFA, a civilian part, joined the appeal of the public ministry, was not represented To Muttenz and did not submit any request, without providing any explanation of this absence.
Source: La Verdad
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