Where is blatter from

Former world football chief Sepp Blatter on Monday met with a Swiss prosecutor investigating suspected fraud surrounding a FIFA payment to Michel Platini, as the long-running probe inches towards a conclusion.

After the interview at the federal prosecutor's office in Zurich, the city where FIFA has its headquarters, Blatter said he would return on Tuesday to resume the final hearing in the investigation. It's the first part. The second part will be tomorrow," he told journalists waiting outside. Blatter, who was accompanied by his lawyer Lorenzo Erni, said he would spend the rest of the day resting and working.

He smiled and waved as he was driven away. The hearing with a federal prosecutor from the Office of the Attorney General OAG of Switzerland was postponed to August due to the retired Swiss football administrator's health. He spent two months in hospital in December and January after undergoing heart surgery, and in March was convalescing in a clinic.

Platini, was not placed under formal investigation until last year, and months later the more serious allegation of fraud was included against both men. Platini has long said, and Blatter repeated Tuesday, that he declared the payment and paid taxes on it in Switzerland. That came four months after a sweeping U. Department of Justice corruption investigation into world soccer was revealed with early-morning arrests of officials from the Americas at luxury hotels in Zurich in May In the fallout of those hotel raids, and only days after being elected FIFA president for a fifth time, Blatter announced his plan to resign and call another vote to find a successor.

The FIFA ethics committee soon suspended both men for several weeks before banning each for six years. Blatter has been in poor health and a final round of questioning by Swiss investigators was delayed until August. When Mr Platini himself became embroiled in the investigation, he withdrew his candidacy for the Fifa presidency.

Those bans have since been reduced to six in Mr Blatter's case and four in Mr Platini's. Fifa corruption crisis: Key questions answered. Platini: I told Blatter to resign. Platini ban appeal rejected by ECHR. Image source, Getty Images. Fifa, football's world governing body, was engulfed by allegations of corruption in Michel Platini: the fall of a man 'born in football' Former Fifa executives accused of bribes.

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