Michel Platini and Joseph Blattformer presidents of Uefa and of FIFArespectively, they will appear on Tuesday before the authorities of Swiss To determine if they were condemned or released by accusation of fraud after the appeal test requested by the Helvetic prosecutor’s office and held on March 6.
In July 2022 both were tried and released by Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland of charges related to a payment, released in 2011 for FIFA with blast approved, of 2 million Swiss Francs (1.6 million euros) in Platini.
Blatter defended that payment to Platini This is a salary owed to the former French soccer player. The two said the transfer of that amount was the result of a verbal agreement and thus no written operation documentation.
That justification is enough for the magistrates, but not for Switzerland Prosecutor office, which appealed to a case that the appeal test was held on March 6.
The two defendants, then present at Federal Criminal Court of Muttenzout of BaselThey heard the prosecutor’s allegations, which rejected the validity of the oral agreement that was used both to prove the payment and served to be released for the first time.
Platini He declared after the trial his initial intent to prepare a message, though he finally chose not to do so by consideration in his words “is full of anger.” BLATTER, For his part, he reiterated his innocence and claimed to attend “a bad movie” within three days of the trial.
The prosecutor, Thomas HildbrandHe reviewed the elements that, in his opinion, pointed out the nature of a payment made with the entire campaign for re -guarding the blatter to the FIFA leader and where he had Platini support, then the President of the UEFA.
According to Hilbrand, the payment permission did not leave any trace in the instances of control of FIFAIt is not approved by associated organizations and, therefore, it cannot be considered legal despite the fact that the financial director of that agency, Markus Kattner, has accessed the payment “deceived” by a “verbal agreement that is impossible to prove”.
For Hilbrand, both blatt and platini used their power to FIFA And to Uefa To proceed with a change of funds, while Platini’s lawyer Dominic Nellen, recalled that it did not match the defendants to show the existence of an oral agreement, but in the prosecutor’s office confirmed that there was no test of fraud.
In addition, the defense argued that 2 million Swiss francs were the delay of payment of verbal contracts both reached in 1998, during the first command of the president of Blatter (Until 2002) for a non -hired advice work. This contract became a light in 2015, when Platini It appeared as the main favorite to replace the blatt on the head of the FIFA.
Both Blatter and Platini resigned from their positions after payment details became light during a corruption crisis that hit FIFA in 2015. In addition, the former French international options to rule the FIFA derailed and open the door to the arrival of the arrival of the arrival of Gianni Infantino, President of the institution since February 26, 2026.
Now, the Prosecutor’s office Ask for a sentence of 20 months in prison and the decision will not be specific because both the persecution and the defendants can appeal to Swiss Federal Courtthe highest authority of the helvetic country.
Source: La Verdad
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