{"id":1230523,"date":"2022-10-21T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/prosecutor-appeals-blatter-platini-acquittals\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:07:23","slug":"prosecutor-appeals-blatter-platini-acquittals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/prosecutor-appeals-blatter-platini-acquittals\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor Appeals Blatter, Platini Acquittals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sepp Blatter in a handshake with Michel Platini (R)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swiss federal prosecutors have filed an appeal to overturn the acquittals of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France footballing great Michel Platini on corruption charges, they said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland\u2019s Federal Criminal Court had cleared the two in July after a seven-year investigation in which both were booted out of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>A judge said the pair\u2019s account of a \u201cgentlemen\u2019s agreement\u201d for FIFA to pay former UEFA president Platini 2 million Swiss francs ($1.99 million) for consulting work was credible, and serious doubts existed about the prosecution\u2019s allegation that it was a fraudulent payment.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had said at the time they would examine the written verdict before deciding whether to appeal against the two, who were once among the most powerful figures in global football and had denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe confirm that the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has filed an appeal with the Appeals Chamber of the Federal Criminal Court within the statutory time limit \u2026 and has requested that the first-instance judgment be set aside in its entirety,\u201d the OAG said, confirming a report in the Neue Zuercher Zeitung newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sepp Blatter in a handshake with Michel Platini (R) \u00a0 Swiss federal prosecutors have filed an appeal to overturn the acquittals of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France footballing great Michel Platini on corruption charges, they said yesterday. Switzerland\u2019s Federal Criminal Court had cleared the two in July after a seven-year investigation in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[27777,935,16517,16518,3099],"class_list":["post-1230523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-acquittals","tag-appeals","tag-blatter","tag-platini","tag-prosecutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}