Overview

• Switzerland’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said it will not pursue further legal steps against Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini after the March 2025 appellate ruling.
• The move makes the not-guilty verdict legally binding, closing this case within the broader football investigations.
• Blatter and Platini had faced charges including fraud, embezzlement, breach of trust, and forgery tied to a FIFA payment to Platini.
• The payment, made in 2010 and totaling about two million Swiss francs, was described by the defense as a belated consultancy fee agreed by handshake.
• Prosecutors noted the courts applied the “in dubio pro reo” standard, and they had earlier sought suspended prison terms of one year and eight months for both men.