GENEVA, Aug 10 ― Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter will meet with a Swiss prosecutor for a third straight day, following a second meeting today in a probe surrounding a suspect payment to Michel Platini. Former world football chief Blatter is being investigated over a two million Swiss franc...
GENEVA, Aug 10 ― Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter will meet with a Swiss prosecutor for a third straight day, following a second meeting today in a probe surrounding a suspect payment to Michel Platini.
“Mr Blatter is happy, but not with the prosecutors’ questions. It’s a bit ridiculous. The suspicions about him are a little absurd,” Renggli told AFP. He spent two months in hospital in December and January after undergoing heart surgery, and in March was convalescing in a clinic.
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