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.

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 Wednesday.

Former soccer leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are back in a Swiss court as their new trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges opened.

Former Fifa kingpin Sepp Blatter reiterated his innocence over a £1.6m payment made to ex-Uefa chief Michel Platini as the fraud case returned to court on Monday. Two of football’s most influential figures of the 21st century are back in the dock after Swiss prosecutors appealed a decision to acquit both men at a previous

The saga stems from the delayed payment of 2 million Swiss francs Fifa paid Platini in 2011 for consultancy services. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are back in court for appeal hearing after the pair were acquitted of fraud charges in 2022 over a £1.6m payment made to the former UEFA boss

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and former UEFA President Michel Platini appeared in court in Switzerland on Monday accused of fraud - 2.5 years after they were cleared.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter returns to court Monday one week before his 89th birthday for a retrial in a 10-year-old case of alleged financial wrongdoing.

Sepp Blatter, the former head of FIFA, and Michel Platini, the ex-president of UEFA, will be back in a Swiss court on Monday for another examination of the charges of fraud that knocked them off the summits of global football. A special appeals court ...

An Extraordinary Appeal Court, convened in Muttenz near Basel, will deliver its verdict on 25 March in the corruption cases against the former FIFA

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini ... s European governing body UEFA at the time. “They falsely claimed that FIFA owed Platini, or that Platini was ...