The Swiss prosecutor’s office overseeing the charges against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have called for the pair to receive 20-month suspended sentences in relation to a years-long corruption probe.
Blatter and Platini are being tried regarding an alleged $2 million payment to Platini in 2011 while he was in office as UEFA president, which prosecutors maintain was a corrupt transaction.
Platini had been employed as Blatter’s adviser between 1998 and 2002, however the payment in question was made some nine years after Platini’s advisory role had ended.
Platini’s annual fee of around $300,000 was paid in full by FIFA – however the pair had claimed that an additional payment sum of $700,000 had been agreed, and would be transferred once FIFA could arrange it.
This led to Platini submitting in invoice for around $2 million in 2011, which was signed off on by Blatter.
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