Mr Blatter and Mr Platini now face trial at a court in Bellinzona. If found guilty of the charges, the pair could receive prison sentences of several years or fines. The case was opened in September after Fifa, football's world governing body, was dogged by accusations of widespread corruption.
Fifa's ethics committee launched an investigation which saw both men banned from the game and forced to leave their positions. The affair ended Mr Blatter's year spell in charge of Fifa and Mr Platini's campaign to succeed his former mentor. A year later Mr Platini was forced to resign as president of Uefa, Europe's football governing body, after losing an appeal against his ban. Both Mr Blatter, 85, and Mr Platini, 66, have denied any wrongdoing. The Swiss case centres on a request for payment for advisory work Mr Platini did for the then-Fifa president Mr Blatter between and Prosecutors said Mr Platini demanded the payment "over eight years after the termination of his advisory activity".
They said Mr Blatter and Mr Plantini have both been accused of fraud, misappropriation, criminal mismanagement and forgery of a document.
Mr Nellen said it was "clear that the investigation should have been discontinued long ago". Officials were also accused of accepting bribes and kickbacks, and even of buying and selling their votes for countries like Russia, Qatar and South Africa to host the prestigious World Cup tournament. In another plot twist, Blatter announced four days later that he would, in fact, continue as president—but only until a new election could be conducted in In September of the same year, the Swedish government accused him of signing a contract with former Caribbean football chief Jack Warner—thought to revolve around TV rights—that was "unfavourable to FIFA," thus violating his fiduciary duties to the organization.
Though Blatter was cleared of corruption charges, the Swedish investigation inspired the FIFA ethics committee to conduct its own. His appeal was rejected in , but his sentence was reduced to a six-year ban. With the new administration came reforms that put limits on presidential terms, and a replacement of the executive committee with a member council. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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Platini, was not placed under formal investigation until last year, and months later the more serious allegation of fraud was included against both men. Platini has long said, and Blatter repeated Tuesday, that he declared the payment and paid taxes on it in Switzerland. That came four months after a sweeping U. Department of Justice corruption investigation into world soccer was revealed with early-morning arrests of officials from the Americas at luxury hotels in Zurich in May In the fallout of those hotel raids, and only days after being elected FIFA president for a fifth time, Blatter announced his plan to resign and call another vote to find a successor.
The FIFA ethics committee soon suspended both men for several weeks before banning each for six years. Blatter has been in poor health and a final round of questioning by Swiss investigators was delayed until August.
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