BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors finally ended their case against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini on Thursday after 10 years and acquittals after two trials .

The office of Switzerland’s attorney general said it would not appeal against acquittals for both men in March at an appeal court.

The first trial was in 2022 on charges of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of more than $2 million of FIFA money in 2011. Both men denied wrongdoing and claimed it was delayed payment for contracted work done as a FIFA advisor during Blatter’s first term as president through 2002.

”Following the failure of the criminal proceedings, the defense will now analyze how to take legal action against those responsible for initiatin

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