Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France football legend Michel Platini have been cleared of fraud charges for a second time.
The former FIFA president and former UEFA president were accused of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $2 million of FIFA money in 2011.
The attorney general’s office in Switzerland had challenged a first acquittal in July 2022 and asked for sentences of 20 months, suspended for two years.
Blatter and Platini have consistently denied wrongdoing.
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