Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini are due to appear in court in Switzerland on Monday accused of fraud – two-and-a-half years after they were cleared.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was innocent when he appeared in a Swiss court on Monday alongside France soccer great Michel Platini, 2-1/2 years after they were both cleared of fraud.

Ex-Fifa head Sepp Blatter and French football great Michel Platini were cleared in 2022, but prosecutors appealed.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter distanced himself from corruption in soccer when he went on trial Monday for the second time alongside his one-time protege Michel Platini.

The Swiss public prosecutor on Tuesday requested suspended sentences of 20 months for both Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini in an appeal against their 2022 acquittal in a corruption case.The case began in 2015 when Blatter quit as head of FIFA in a corruption crisis.

Former soccer leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were back in a Swiss court Monday as their new trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges opened.

The prosecution is demanding suspended prison sentences of one year and eight months for former FIFA president Joseph Blatter and former UEFA boss Michel Platini in the new round of a legal dispute over suspicion of fraud in Muttenz,