First trial took place in 2022, on charges of fraud, falsification, mismanagement and improper appropriation of more than $ 2 million
former president of, and, the former Mandator of, were definitely acquitted by the Swiss justice on Thursday (28). The long case, which lasted 10 years, was closed as the Swiss prosecutors decided not to appeal the acquittal decided in March this year, in an appeal court. The first trial took place in 2022, on charges of fraud, falsification, mismanagement and improper appropriation of more than $ 2 million (about $ 10.8 million in the current exchange rate), which would have occurred in 2011. Payment of the maximum world football entity has surfaced in 2015, during the so -called federal investigators of the United States.
The allegations, which were not proven twice in the Swiss courts, dismissed Blatter and Platini from the positions they held at the time and led to the 2016 elections, which installed Gianni Infantino as president of FIFA and Aleksander Ceferin in charge of UEFA. The Swiss prosecutors said on Thursday that, by accepting the judgments of the Appeal Court, “another chapter is closed in the complex procedures related to football.”
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Fernando Dias
