Overview

• The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland said it will not challenge the March acquittals, formally ending the criminal proceedings.
• The closure caps a decade of investigations that included a 2022 trial on fraud, forgery, mismanagement and embezzlement charges.
• The case centered on a payment of about two million Swiss francs made by FIFA to Platini in 2011.
• Blatter and Platini argued the transfer compensated earlier consultancy work under a verbal agreement, a claim the Swiss courts accepted.
• Revelations in 2015 by U.S. and Swiss investigators led to both men leaving office and 2016 elections that installed Gianni Infantino at FIFA and Aleksander Ceferin at UEFA.