Court case was ‘means of getting Michel Platini out of the way’, lawyer claims
March 6 – Former UEFA boss Michel Platini was accused of fraud in order to scupper his chances of becoming the head of FIFA, his lawyer claimed at the Frenchman’s corruption trial.
Both Platini and former FIFA president Sepp Blatter have been in court this week in a second appeals trial, having been acquitted in July 2022 in a criminal action brought by Swiss judicial authorities.
The acquittals took place despite both having been banned from the game by FIFA,
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