Swiss open criminal proceedings against Sepp Blatter

Swiss prosecutors yesterday opened criminal proceedings against Fifa president Sepp Blatter and questioned Uefa president Michel Platini on another momentous day at football’s world governing body.

The Swiss attorney general’s office issued a statement saying Blatter is suspected of criminal mismanagement or misappropriation over a TV rights deal he signed in 2005.

He is also suspected of “a disloyal payment” in 2011 of two millions Swiss francs to Platini for work allegedly carried out by the Frenchman between 1999 and 2002.