MOSCOW, Oct 20 verdict on former football functionaries Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini for fraud, reports AFP, citing a statement from the prosecutor's office. Earlier, the Swiss court in the city of Bellinzona acquitted the former president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Blatter and the former head of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Platini for fraud case. The trial against an 86-year-old Swiss man and a 67-year-old French man on charges of fraud, maladministration, breach of trust and forgery of securities ended on July 8. «We confirm that the Attorney General's Office has filed an appeal with the Federal Criminal Court of Appeal (TPF) in due course. term and petitioned for the complete annulment of the decision of the court of first instance,» the prosecutor's office said in a statement. In the fall of 2015, the Swiss Federal Bureau of Justice opened a case against Blatter, who was then president of FIFA, on suspicion of illegally transferring 2 million Swiss francs to Platini in 2011 . Swiss prosecutors asked Blatter and Platini for one year and eight months suspended sentences with two years' probation. Under Swiss law, they faced up to five years in prison or a large fine. In December 2015, the FIFA Ethics Committee Arbitration Chamber suspended Blatter and Platini from football for eight years. The FIFA Appeals Committee later reduced Blatter's suspension to six years and Platini's to four.
