Platini and Blatter aren't done with justice yet.

Acquitted this summer in a fraud case, the two men learned Thursday that the Swiss public prosecutor has decided to appeal this acquittal.

The latter sent a declaration of appeal to the Court of Appeal of the Federal Criminal Court (TPF) and "requested the total annulment of the judgment of first instance", indicates the press release confirming information from the daily

L'Equipe

.

The prosecution stressed that it would not make any further statement on this subject.

After six years of investigation and two weeks of trial for fraud in Switzerland, the French football icon, 67, and Sepp Blatter, 86, were acquitted on July 8.

They faced five years in prison and the prosecution had requested a year and eight months in prison suspended.

The former boss of UEFA and his counterpart at FIFA appeared for having “illegally obtained, to the detriment of FIFA, a payment of two million Swiss francs” (1.8 million euros) “in favor of Michel Platinum”.

A "gentlemen's agreement" that questions

Defense and prosecution agreed on one point: the triple Ballon d'Or advised Sepp Blatter well between 1998 and 2002, during the latter's first term as head of FIFA, and the two men signed a contract in 1999 agreeing to an annual remuneration of 300,000 Swiss francs, fully paid by the supreme body of world football

But, in January 2011, the former midfielder, who in the meantime became UEFA President (2007-2015), "claimed a claim of two million Swiss francs", qualified as a "false invoice" by the accusation.

The two men insisted on their side that they had from the start decided on an annual salary of one million Swiss francs, by an oral "gentlemen's agreement" and without witnesses, without the finances of FIFA allow immediate payment to Mr. Platini.

The court could not prove the scam

The French "was worth his million", had assured Sepp Blatter to the magistrates, before Michel Platini in turn described a negotiation so little formalized that he had not specified the motto: "Me for fun, I said ' pesetas, liras, rubles, marks, it's up to you, ”said the legend of the Blues in court.

The latter had considered that the fraud was “not established with a likelihood bordering on certainty”, therefore applying the general principle of criminal law according to which “the doubt must benefit the accused”.

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