LAUSANNE (AFP) – Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and former Uefa chief Michel Platini will seem earlier than Swiss prosecutors on prices of fraud between June 8-22, the felony courtroom involved stated on Tuesday (April 12).
This would be the remaining listening to in a long-running saga that started in 2011 and stems from a cost from Fifa to Platini of two million Swiss francs (S$2.9 million) for consultancy companies.
Platini’s companies date from 1998 to 2002 when he had a 300,000 Swiss francs per yr deal, cost for which was solely made eight years later.
The pair are being investigated for “disloyal management”, “breach of trust” and “forgery of securities”.
Blatter was compelled to face down in 2015 and the governing physique of world soccer banned him for eight years, later diminished to 6.
The three-time Ballon d’Or winner Platini was suspended from all football-related actions for 4 years.
The pair are to be questioned one final time earlier than the investigation is concluded.
The prices might carry sentences of 5 years in jail.
