GENEVA, March 25 (Bernama-dpa) -- Former top football officials Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini have again been acquitted of fraud, a Swiss court said on Tuesday.
German Press Agency (dpa) reported that Swiss administrator Blatter, commonly known as Sepp, was president of world football's governing body FIFA from 1998 to 2015 while former France player Platini headed European body UEFA from 2007 to 2015.
The duo have been acquitted over a 2 million Swiss franc (US$2.2 million) payment from Blatter to Platini, which they say they agreed in the 1990s for consultancy work but was only paid in 2011.
Prosecutors had said it was a sort of bribe. The allegation already led to the end of their careers in sports administration.
The pair were previously acquitted of fraud over the same payment in 2022, but prosecutors appealed.
--BERNAMA-dpa
