Prosecutors accuse Blatter, a Swiss who led global soccer body FIFA for 17 years, and Platini, a former France national team captain and manager, of unlawfully arranging for FIFA to pay the Frenchman two million Swiss francs in 2011.Prosecutors have asked the court to impose suspended 20-month prison sentences on both men, and to compel them to repay Zurich-based FIFA 2.23 million Swiss francs.
Platini, 67, worked as a consultant between 1998 and 2002 with an annual salary of 300 000 Swiss francs — the most FIFA could afford because of money troubles the organisation had at the time, Blatter has told the court.Motives for the payment are unclear, although the two men met in 2010 and discussed the upcoming elections for the FIFA presidency in 2011.
Platini, then president of European soccer association UEFA, was seen as having sway with European members who could influence the vote. The payment emerged following a huge investigation launched by the US Department of Justice into bribery, fraud and money-laundering at FIFA in 2015, which triggered Blatter’s resignation.
Our own new SAFA president cannot fly to some countries for fear of arrest due to bribery and corruption done with these two figures, allegedly.😁
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