Michel Platini and the former president of Fifa, the Swiss Sepp Blatter, were acquitted on Friday in Switzerland in the fraud case which in 2015 shattered the Frenchman's ambitions to reach the top of world football.
The Federal Criminal Court of Bellinzona did not follow the requisitions of the prosecution, which had requested in mid-June respectively one year and eight months of suspended prison sentence, while the two accused claimed their innocence.
The 67-year-old Frenchman and the 86-year-old Swiss had each pleaded for acquittal, they who saw in this file a manipulation intended to remove them from power.
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