Former world football chief Sepp Blatter remains 'optimistic' Wednesday, his spokesman said, as he faces a fourth day of questioning by a Swiss prosecutor investigating a suspect FIFA payment to Michel Platini.
Former president of World football’s governing body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, leaves the building of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland with his lawyer to attend a hearing in Zurich, on August 9 2021.
In final hearings in the investigation, Blatter has met with a federal prosecutor from the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland for three consecutive days in Zurich, where FIFA has its headquarters. After Wednesday’s third session, his spokesman Thomas Renggli said afterwards that Blatter was finding the process hard going but would return again on Thursday for a fourth straight day of questioning.“He is always having to say the same thing. The prosecutor does not want to accept that there was an oral contract between Blatter and Platini.
While Platini’s final interview with the prosecutor was in March, Blatter’s hearing was postponed to August due to the retired Swiss football administrator’s health.Joseph “Sepp” Blatter was forced to stand down as FIFA president in 2015 and was banned by world football’s governing for eight years, later reduced to six, over ethics breaches for authorising what prosecutors termed a “disloyal payment” to Platini — in other words, one made in his own interests rather than FIFA’s.
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