https://news.sky.com/story/former-f...nd-michel-platini-charged-with-fraud-12457982
"Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his ex-UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have been charged with fraud in Switzerland.
It follows a six-year investigation into a payment of two million Swiss francs from FIFA to Platini.
Blatter, 85, and French football legend Platini, 65, could now face a trial within months.
"This payment damaged FIFA's assets and unlawfully enriched Platini," Swiss federal prosecutors said in a statement.
In January 2011, Platini wrote to FIFA asking to be paid backdated additional salary for working as a presidential adviser in Blatter's first term from 1998 to 2002.
Blatter authorised FIFA to make the payment within weeks.
He and Platini have long denied wrongdoing and said they had verbally agreed for the money to be paid more than 20 years ago."
Is that it? What about the years of excess, corruption and cronyism?
"Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his ex-UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have been charged with fraud in Switzerland.
It follows a six-year investigation into a payment of two million Swiss francs from FIFA to Platini.
Blatter, 85, and French football legend Platini, 65, could now face a trial within months.
"This payment damaged FIFA's assets and unlawfully enriched Platini," Swiss federal prosecutors said in a statement.
In January 2011, Platini wrote to FIFA asking to be paid backdated additional salary for working as a presidential adviser in Blatter's first term from 1998 to 2002.
Blatter authorised FIFA to make the payment within weeks.
He and Platini have long denied wrongdoing and said they had verbally agreed for the money to be paid more than 20 years ago."
Is that it? What about the years of excess, corruption and cronyism?
