# Soccer: Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and French great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss appeals court, two and a half years after they were first acquitted of the offences. The case related to a payment Blatter authorised for Platini for work carried out from 1998 to 2002. The scandal emerged in 2015 when Platini was president of European football’s governing body, UEFA and ended his hopes of succeeding Blatter, who was forced out of FIFA over the scandal.
Soccer: Blatter, Platini cleared by Swiss court in FIFA corruption case