Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, the former heads of world and European football, have been charged with fraud by Swiss authorities as part of a long-running corruption investigation into conduct of executives who once ran the world’s favourite sport.
The men were indicted on Tuesday following a six-year investigation into a SFr2m ($2m) payment authorised by Blatter to be paid to Platini in 2011, which was allegedly made for backdated additional salary.
The Swiss Attorney General’s office said on Tuesday: “This payment damaged Fifa’s assets and unlawfully enriched Platini.”
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