The first hearing of the lawsuit filed in Switzerland against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini on fraud charges will take place on 8 June.
According to the statement made by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, the hearings to be held on 8-22 June will be held before a panel of three judges.
The indictment of the investigation launched into the 2 million Swiss francs that Blatter paid to Platini, who was also FIFA vice president at that time in February 2011, when he was FIFA president, was accepted in November 2021.
Two former football men will be tried for fraud and other crimes. Blatter, 86, is charged with “fraud, mismanagement, embezzlement of FIFA funds and forgery of documents”, while Platini, 66, is charged with fraud, embezzlement, forgery and complicity in Blatter’s alleged mismanagement.
After the payment that emerged in 2015, FIFA sentenced both managers to be banned from football for 8 years. FIFA Arbitration Board reduced the sentences of the two names to 6 years. Platini’s sentence was reduced to 4 years after appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). FIFA, on the other hand, filed a lawsuit for the return of the 2 million Swiss francs.