Michel Platini and Sepp Blatter are now being prosecuted for "fraud" and "breach of trust" in Switzerland, after the expansion of the investigation initially opened against them for "unfair management", we learned Friday from a source with access to the folder.
However, no new fact has arisen in this case, which broke the course of the two former football leaders at the end of 2015, and concerns the payment by Fifa of 2 million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros) to Michel Platini in early 2011, according to the same source, confirming information from the French newspaper Le Monde and the French site Mediapart.
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