Blatter, Michel Platini and FIFA

Former football officials Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini return to court
Previous football officials Sepp Blatter along with Michel Platini are coming to court in Switzerland on Monday for a new lawsuit on fraud, forgery,
Former soccer leaders Blatter, Platini return to court for new fraud trial over $2M FIFA payment
Former soccer leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are back in a Swiss court as their new trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges opened.
Ex-FIFA and UEFA chiefs Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini return to court to face corruption charge
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini are due to appear in court in Switzerland on Monday accused of fraud – two-and-a-half years after they were cleared.
Soccer-Ex-FIFA chief Blatter states his innocence on court return over fraud case
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was innocent when he appeared in a Swiss court on Monday alongside France soccer great Michel Platini, 2-1/2 years after they were both cleared of fraud. Blatter and Platini were acquitted in 2022 at a lower Swiss court following a seven-year investigation into a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.
Blatter and Platini back in court in Swiss Fifa fraud case
Ex-Fifa head Sepp Blatter and French football great Michel Platini were cleared in 2022, but prosecutors appealed.
‘That’s not me’: Blatter denied fraud as £1.6m Platini row returns to court
Former Fifa kingpin Sepp Blatter reiterated his innocence over a £1.6m payment made to ex-Uefa chief Michel Platini as the fraud case returned to court on Monday. Two of football’s most influential figures of the 21st century are back in the dock after Swiss prosecutors appealed a decision to acquit both men at a previous
Swiss prosecutors seek suspended sentences for Blatter and Platini
The Swiss public prosecutor on Tuesday requested suspended sentences of 20 months for both Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini in an appeal against their 2022 acquittal in a corruption case.The case began in 2015 when Blatter quit as head of FIFA in a corruption crisis.
Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini face retrial in FIFA corruption case
Former FIFA and UEFA leaders return to Swiss court for 2nd trial on fraud charges, nearly decade after investigation began - Anadolu Ajansı
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini arrive at court for second trial over £1.6m FIFA payment
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are back in court for appeal hearing after the pair were acquitted of fraud charges in 2022 over a £1.6m payment made to the former UEFA boss
Fraud case designed to wreck Platini's chance of FIFA top job, lawyer says
French footballing great Michel Platini was accused of fraud to torpedo his chances of becoming the head of world soccer's governing body FIFA, his lawyer told a Swiss court on Wednesday. Platini, a former captain and manager of the French national team who also used to run Europe's football authority UEFA,
Defence pleads for acquittal for Blatter and Platini in fraud trial
The defence lawyers of former FIFA president Joseph Blatter and former UEFA boss Michel Platini have pleaded for another acquittal of their clients in the new round of a legal dispute over suspicion of fraud in Muttenz,
Frail-looking Sepp Blatter appears at fraud hearing alongside Michel Platini
Former Fifa and Uefa presidents were cleared of criminal charges in 2022 but Swiss prosecutors are challenging that verdict ...
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Frail-looking Sepp Blatter arrives for fresh fraud appeal hearing alongside Michel Platini
A frail-looking Sepp Blatter, the former Fifa president, and ex-Uefa boss Michel Platini have arrived at court to stand trial ...
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Ex-football chiefs deny wrongdoing on first day of fraud retrial
Ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter, center leaves the special appeals court in Muttenz, Switzerland, Monday, March 3, 2025.