All judges in the appeals chamber of the Federal Criminal Court must resign from the second instance proceedings against Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini.
The Federal Court decided this. It upheld a complaint from Platini.
In 2022, the two were acquitted of fraud charges. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office had appealed against the acquittals.
Before the appeal process against the two former top football officials Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini, the judges must be replaced. Otherwise there would be a risk of bias, the Federal Court in Lausanne ruled in a decision.
The 88-year-old Blatter, former president of the world association Fifa, and Platini (68), former head of the European Football Union Uefa, were acquitted of fraud charges in 2022. From the perspective of the prosecution, Blatter illegally paid the Frenchman millions in 2011. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office had appealed against the acquittals.
Platini then called for all judges in the appeals chamber of the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona to be withdrawn from the appeal process because of possible bias. The highest court in Lausanne agreed because the president of the appeals chamber had also been questioned as a witness in the first instance trial against Blatter and Platini. This judge was formerly a public prosecutor and was now the focus of investigations because of secret meetings with FIFA officials.
SRF 4 News, April 4, 2024, 4:00 p.m.; sda/schn;kesm
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