Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have won again in court and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors. The former FIFA president and former UEFA president have been acquitted for a second time on charges of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $2 million of FIFA money in 2011. The 89-year-old Blatter gave little reaction listening to the verdict of three cantonal (state) judges acting as a federal criminal appeals court. Swiss prosecutors had challenged a first acquittal in July 2022 and asked for suspended sentences of 20 months.
