On Friday, a Swiss court acquitted the former heads of the International and European Federations, Swiss Joseph Blatter and Frenchman Michel Platini, in a fraud case that ruined their administrative careers.
The criminal court in Plinzone denied prosecutors’ requests in mid-June to jail Blatter, aged 86, and Platini, aged 67, with a one-year, eight-month suspended sentence, based on fraud against the International Federation. (FIFA) to obtain unjustified compensation of two million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros) for Platini’s consulting work for Blatter.
