Jaw-dropping European win
Blatter and Platini back in court on corruption charges
Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter, center, arrives in front of the special appeals court in Muttenz, Switzerland, for his retrial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges Monday, March 3, 2025
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FORMER Fifa president Sepp Blatter distanced himself from corruption in football when he went on trial today for the second time alongside his one-time protege Michel Platini.
Blatter and Platini returned to a federal courtroom nearly three years after they were acquitted at a first trial on charges of fraud, forgery and misappropriation of Fifa money. Swiss federal prosecutors appealed against those verdicts from July 2022.
Blatter approved a Fifa payment of 2 million Swiss francs (now £1.7m) to Platini in 2011 for working as a presidential adviser a decade earlier.
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