Dar es Salaam, March 25 -- SWITZERLAND: SEPP Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted again after Swiss prosecutors appealed a previous ruling that also cleared them of corruption charges. The former FIFA president stepped down over the scandal in 2015.

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and former UEFA chief Michel Platini were both acquitted of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Tuesday.

The charges had related to fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of 2 million Swiss francs (now €2.1 million; $2.26 million) of FIFA money in 2011.

The two had previously been acquitted by a lower court in 2022, but Swiss prosecutors appealed that decision.

“After two acquittals, even the Office of t...