Blair pleads innocent to corruption charge

The former FIFA president Sepp Bablet said he was innocent when he appeared in a Swiss court Monday along with the Frenchman, Michel Platini. Blutter and Platini were released in 2022 in a lower Swiss court after a seven-year investigation into a $2 million Swiss franc payment (2.22m) to Platini broadcasts Kosovars.

The Swiss federal prosecutor has appealed against this ruling, leading to a new session at the Swiss Criminal Court's Foreign Appeal Room in Muttenz, near Basel. The prosecutor demanded complete abolition of the court.

Blatter told the court Monday that he was not guilty of fraud.

When you speak lies, lies and deceptions, it's not me. It didn't exist all my life, he said” We had principles in my family we only get the money we've earned. I'm innocent.”

The 2022 incident accused Butter and Platini of cheating FIFA staff in 2010 and 2011 over the obligation of the world's governing football body to pay the Frenchman, who was then president of the European sports body U. EFA.

“They claimed that FIFA owed Platini, or that Platini was right about 2 million Swiss francs for consulting jobs. This fraud was achieved through repeated false claims made by both sides charged”, the indictment said.

The case shattered Platini's hopes of eventually succeeding Blutter, who resigned from FIFA in 2015 following a particular corruption scandal.

Blutter and Platini were suspended from football in 2015 by FIFA for ethical violations, initially for eight years, although their exceptions were later reduced.

Blatt, who was FIFA president for 17 years until 2015,.