Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: March 28, 2023, 21:42 IST
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter (AP)
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter was charged with ‘legal mismanagement’ over the development of the museum
Swiss authorities introduced on Tuesday the top of authorized proceedings against former FIFA president Sepp Blatter over the alleged mismanagement of its Zurich museum.
The Zurich public prosecutor’s division “has closed legal proceedings against two former FIFA officers in connection to the FIFA museum,” it said in a statement.
“The investigation did not confirm the suspicion of breach of obligations by way of unfair management,” it added.
FIFA filed a legal criticism in December 2020 against the previous head of world soccer’s governing physique for “legal mismanagement” over the construction of the museum, a project spearheaded by Blatter.
It claimed the museum claimed generated a bill of 500 million Swiss francs ($564 million) that instead “could and should have been channeled into the development of global football”.
Under Blatter, FIFA mentioned it spent $140 million on refurbishing and renovating an workplace constructing and signed an “unfavourable” long-term rental settlement above market charges that can price the organisation $360 million by its date of expiration in 2045.
However, according to the Zurich public prosecutor, “it was not possible to establish wrongful behaviour.”
The museum was opened in 2016 by Gianni Infantino following his following election as Blatter’s successor.
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