Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are set to appear in a Swiss court regarding corruption charges linked to a controversial 2 million Swiss franc payment made in 2011. This payment was claimed to be a consultancy fee for work done between 1998 and 2002. Their initial acquittal in 2022 was overturned by Swiss federal prosecutors, leading to a new hearing. The case has severely impacted both men's careers, culminating in their significant suspensions from football administration after the scandal emerged in 2015.
"They falsely claimed that FIFA owed Platini, or that Platini was entitled to, the sum of 2 million Swiss francs for advisory work. This deception was achieved through repeated untruthful claims made by both accused parties."
"The affair, which emerged in 2015 when Platini was president of European football body UEFA, torpedoed his hopes of eventually succeeding Blatter at the top of FIFA."
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