Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great and former UEFA president Michel Platini leave the Swiss court of Muttenz saying they are innocent, two and a half years after they were both ...

Blatter and Platini are facing a second trial nearly three years after they were acquitted by three federal judges. The charges relate to a Blatter-approved FIFA payment of 2 million Swiss francs (now ...

Former football leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini return to court for new fraud trial over $2m FIFA payment. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter arrives at the tribunal on Monday for his ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini are due to appear in court in Switzerland on Monday accused of fraud – two-and-a-half years after they were cleared.

ZURICH - French footballing great Michel Platini was accused of fraud to torpedo his chances of becoming the head of world soccer's governing body Fifa, his lawyer told a Swiss court on March 5.

Blatter and French soccer great Michel Platini were acquitted in July 2022 by three federal judges on charges including fraud, forgery, misappropriation of funds and mismanagement. They related to ...

Blatter and Platini returned to a federal court room nearly three years after they were acquitted at a first trial in July 2022 on charges of fraud, forgery and misappropriation of FIFA money.

FILE - The former Fifa President, Joseph Blatter, center, waves to the press in front of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, at the last day of the trail, after the ...

Blatter arrived 10 minutes after his co-defendant Michel Platini, the former UEFA president and FIFA vice president. Blatter and Platini are facing a second trial nearly three years after they ...

Michel Platini, the former head of UEFA, told a Swiss appeals court Monday, where his acquittal on fraud charges is being examined, that FIFA "owed" him the two million Swiss francs ($2.2m) at the ...