The former Fifa-president Sepp Blatter release of the indictment in the case on sale of the tv rights for the Caribbean.
The swiss public prosecutor’s office to drop one of the two cases against the former president of The International Football federation (Fifa) Sepp Blatter.
The 84-year-old schweizer release to be dragged in court in a case concerning the sale of tv rights for the Caribbean football association (CFU).
This writes the French newspaper Le Monde, German Süddeutsche Zeitung, according to news agency AFP.
Until now, the swiss public prosecutor’s office examined whether Blatter signed a contract regarding tv rights to the WORLD cup in 2010 and 2014 with the CFU, it was not “profitable for Fifa”.
the CFU would have to pay over 600,000 dollars for the tv rights, which is considered to be below the usual market price.
It was the then vice-president of Fifa Jack Warner, who at the time was the head of the CFU. He is ago – just as Blatter – has been hit by charges of corruption and has been excluded from all fodboldrelaterede activities for life.
Blatter was in december 2015 sentenced to eight years of quarantine from football. It was in February 2016 up to six years.
He investigated are still in February 2011 on the illegal show to have transferred 1.9 million euros to the then president of The union of European Football associations (Uefa) Michel Platini, who in the same case, was sentenced to six years in quarantine, but later got it reduced to four years.
– When the case is about the payment for Platini also gets closed, I will ask Fifa to be cleaned because my quarantine is based on the charges from the swiss public prosecutor’s office, says Sepp Blatter to the AFP.
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