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Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini Fully Cleared in FIFA Corruption Case. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini Fully Cleared in FIFA Corruption Case Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and French football legend Michel Platini have been cleared once again in a long-running corruption case, following a ruling from Switzerland’s Extraordinary Appeals Chamber. The decision comes two and a half years after their initial acquittal in 2022, which was appealed by Swiss federal prosecutors. The case focused on a 2 million Swiss franc payment made by Blatter to Platini in 2011, which prosecutors had alleged was fraudulent. Platini claimed the payment was a delayed consultancy fee for work he had completed for FIFA between 1998 and 2002, and that the sum had been agreed upon years earlier. The scandal emerged in 2015, costing Platini his UEFA presidency and ending his bid to succeed Blatter as FIFA chief. Platini’s lawyer, Dominic Nellen, said the case caused serious personal and professional damage, despite the lack of incriminating evidence and now two full acquittals. Nellen called for prosecutors to “finally leave Platini in peace,” adding that the proceedings had “definitively failed.”
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