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.

GENEVA — One week before his 89th birthday, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter returns to court ... who had been Platini's CEO-like general secretary at UEFA. Once the two most influential men in world soccer, Blatter and Platini return to court aged ...

The two men were acquitted almost three years ago, but the Swiss Attorney General's Office and FIFA appealed against the decision. View on euronews

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.

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.

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

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and French football legend Michel Platini are ... who formerly led European football's governing body Uefa. But the Swiss federal prosecutor appealed against the decision. The new trial is expected to last until Thursday ...

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.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel ... who was president of the game’s European governing body UEFA at the time. “They falsely claimed that FIFA owed Platini ...

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