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The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has insisted he is “clean with my conscience and
clean in my spirit” after being cleared of defrauding football’s governing body by a
Swiss court.
Michel Platini, a former captain and manager of the France national team
who became a vice-president of football’s world governing body, described his joy after
his acquittal, saying the allegations had turned him from a legend to a “devil”.
The
two men, once among the most powerful figures in global sport, had denied the charges.
On Friday they joked and shook hands before the judgment in the southern city of
Bellinzona and looked relieved as the verdict was read out.
The complex case centred
around a 2.2m Swiss francs (£1.7m) payment made from Fifa to Platini with Blatter’s
approval in 2011, for consultancy work a decade earlier. Swiss prosecutors described
the payment as “without a legal basis” and said it had “unlawfully enriched Platini”
because there was no written contract at the time.
Both men maintained they had struck
a verbal gentleman’s agreement for the Frenchman to be paid backdated additional salary
for advising Blatter between 1998 to 2002 – which Platini had not received at the time
because of Fifa’s perilous finances.
That explanation was rejected by judges on Fifa’s
ethics committee, which banned both men from football, and on appeal at the court of
arbitration for sport. The emergence of the payment also led to Blatter ending his
reign as Fifa president in disgrace – while Platini lost his job as president of Uefa,
the European governing body, after his ban.
However, after an 11-day trial at the
federal criminal court of Switzerland, the senior judge, Josephine Contu Albrizio, said
it was credible that there could have been a verbal agreement between Blatter and
Platini. The judge also accepted that it was reasonable for the Frenchman to see his
market value at CHF 1m a year given his status in the game – far more than his annual
salary of CHF 300,000 as a consultant at Fifa between 1998 and 2002.
Albrizio added
that it seemed implausible that Platini would have worked only on the basis of a
written contract that paid him such a modest sum. And she said it was also credible
that Platini sought the extra money only in 2010 because he did not need it
immediately.
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Afterwards Platini, who
has long maintained that the case was a deliberate attempt to thwart his attempt to
become Fifa president in 2024, pledged he would be going after unspecified “culprits”
who led to the case against him.
“I wanted to express my happiness for all my loved
ones that justice has finally been done after seven years of lies and manipulation,” he
said. “The truth has come to light during this trial.”
He added: “Believe me, going
from being a legend of world soccer to a devil is very difficult, especially when it
comes to you in a totally unfair way. I kept saying it – my fight is a fight against
injustice. I won the first game. In this case, there are culprits who did not appear
during this trial. Let them count on me, we will meet again because I will not give up
and I will go all the way in my quest for truth.”
A delighted Blatter, who had run Fifa
for 17 years before his ban, said: “I’m not speaking about Fifa, I’m not speaking about
corruption, I’m speaking about me. I have done nothing wrong. I am clean with my
conscience, I am clean in my spirit.”
Fifa has said it will await the “full reasoned
judgment before commenting further”.
The 86-year-old Blatter faces a separate criminal
proceeding related to authorising aR$1m Fifa payment to the Trinidad and Tobago
Football Association in 2010. He has denied wrongdoing.
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