A Swiss Federal Criminal Court has acquittted a former FIFA president Joseph Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini of corruption charges.
In a FIFA fraud trial, the two ex-football officials had been charged by federal prosecutors in Switzerland with defrauding FIFA in connection with a payment of two million Swiss francs (2.07 million dollars) Platini received.
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The Frenchman had received the money from FIFA in 2011 for work done as a consultant between 1998 and 2002.Switzerland’s Blatter, 86, presided over the world governing football body from 1998 to 2015.
Platini, 67, said in a statement distributed by his lawyer that “my fight is a fight against injustice. I have won a first game.”“The truth has come to light in this trial,” he said, vowing “we will meet again”.He added that he would “go all the way in my quest for the truth” because “there are culprits who did not appear during this trial.”
