In the fraud process for a million-of-year payment from the health insurance fund of the FIFA World Federation Association, the former top officials Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini were acquired again. The Court of Appeal in Muttenz near Basel judged like the first instance.
At the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, there was already an acquittal for the former FIFA President Blatter (89) and Platini (69), ex-President of the European Football Union (UEFA). “In Dubio Pro Reo” – in doubt for the accused, as the judge said at the time.
Prosecutor’s office demanded imprisonment
It was about a payment of two million francs (today 2.1 million euros), which Blatter had approved from the FIFA checkout to Platini in 2011. According to Blatter and Platini, the additional payment of a fee for ten years was a consultant service that had been agreed orally.
The public prosecutor had captured its allegations of fraud and embezzlement and had appealed. She had asked for a prison sentence of one year and eight months.
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