Swiss drop criminal case against Blatter but FIFA’s CHF2 million claim still lingers
By Andrew Warshaw
April 14 – Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter (pictured), still under a six-year global ban from football at the age of 84 despite always protesting his innocence, has won a partial victory against his accusers with federal prosecutors in Switzerland agreeing to drop one of two cases against him for suspected criminal mismanagement.